Hendren v. City of Arkansas City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action against the defendant city for damages sustained by plaintiff through the action of a mob.

Plaintiff, an admitted simpleton, resides in Arkansas City. For some time prior to the doings involved herein he indulged the fancy that he had histrionic attainments of such high order that some imaginary motion-picture companies were competing for his services, and that one of these planned to wjaylay and kidnap him. This *362delusion quite naturally attracted the attention of several young men and boys of the town, and on the evening…