Brown v. Town of Eustis

Plaintiff sues the municipality for an assault alleged to have been perpetrated by one of its policemen. It is alleged in the amended declaration that while the policeman was patrolling the streets, the policeman, without authority of law and without being requested or called, entered into a certain place of business and attempted to and did arrest the plaintiff; that plaintiff was in the building as a guest of the owners thereof; that the arrest was without cause, malicious and without provocation on the part of the plaintiff; that the policeman struck the plaintiff and inflicted certain…