Wright v. Templeton
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass for false imprisonment. Pleas, the general issue, with notice of justification under two. warrants issued by a justice of the peace, on complaint of the state’s attorney, charging criminal offences. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1906, Washington County, Rowell, J., presiding. No general verdict - was submitted.
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Trespass for false imprisonment. Pleas, the general issue, with notice of justification under two. warrants issued by a justice of the peace, on complaint of the state’s attorney, charging criminal offences. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1906, Washington County, Rowell, J., presiding. No general verdict - was submitted. The jury were only asked to assess the damages on the basis that defendant was a trespasser ab initio, which they . did at $360; and to answer the question whether it was a reasonable and proper thing for the defendant to do, in the circumstances, to take the plaintiff to…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
The defendant undertakes to justify under two warrants issued by a justice of the peace upon complaints of the state’s attorney of the county charging criminal offences. The warrants commanded the officer serving the same to apprehend the plaintiff and have him forthwith before the subscribing justice at Barre. The plaintiff was arrested on the warrants by the defendant, a legally qualified deputy sheriff, at *361Groton about nine o’clock in the evening of October 8, 1899, and taken to Barre, arriving there between the hours of five and six the next morning.
After a short stop in Barre, and…
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