Somerset Bank v. Edmund

On February 28th, 1902, Harlan H. Edmund, the defendant in error, brought suit in the court of common pleas of Perry county, Ohio, against The Somerset Bank, to recoyer the sum of six hundred dollars as a reward for procuring the. arrest and conviction of certain persons who had theretofore, on the night of March 25th, 1901, broken into and robbed said bank. In his petition the plaintiff alleged: “That on or about the 26th day of March, A. D, 1901, certain persons whose names were then unknown, in the night season, maliciously and forcibly broke and entered. the office and building of said…