Smith v. Warden

James, J.:

This action was for false imprisonment. The case shows that defendant was a constable of the town of Solon, Cortland county, and Samuel McGuire, a justice of the peace of said county. That, on the 31st day of March, 1871, the said McGuire, as a justice of *788the peace, issued a warrant against the plaintiff, directed to the sheriff or to any constable of the county of Oortland, to arrest Orlando M. Smith, the said plaintiff, and bring him before said justice, at his office in the said town of Solon, to answer, etc., and delivered said warrant to one Pierce, also a constable of said…