Freeman v. Robinson

Freeman brought an action against Robinson, and complained that the defendant, at the county of Marion, on, &c., being marshal of the United States for the district of Indiana, by virtue of his- office having the plaintiff in custody upon a charge of being a fugitive from service and labor, did, by virtue of his office, assault the plaintiff, and strip him naked-, and expose his naked limbs and body to divers persons who- were witnesses against the plaintiff, and thereby purposely intended to and did expose the plaintiff to be carried into slavery for life by fraud and perjury.

The second…