Tolchester Beach Improvement Co. v. Steinmeier

This is a suit for assault and false imprisonment. The appellant is a corporation known as “The Tolchester Beach Improvement Company of Kent County,” and carries on an excursion business, by steamboats, bringing passengers from Baltimore and elsewhere to Tolchester Beach, in Kent County, where the company has a wharf, hotel, baths, small boats for hire, &c. The plaintiff carried on a business on .the shore in hiring small boats and fishing tackle, and got his customers mainly from persons who were appellant's excursionists ; and out of this rivalry in trade grew ill .feeling and controversy,…