Reisterer v. Lee Sum

WALLACE, Circuit Judge.

This is a writ of error by the defendant in the court below to review a judgment for the plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The action was for malicious prosecution and false imprisonment. The plaintiff was a Chinese laborer employed in September, 1897, in a laundry at Tonawanda, and the defendant was an officer of the customs at that place. On September 17, 1897, the defendant arrested the plaintiff, and took him before a United States commissioner within the district; assuming to do so conformably to the provisions of the Chinese exclusion act. That act provides that…