Applewhite v. New Orleans Great Northern R.

LE BLANC, Judge.

The plaintiff in this case was shot and slightly wounded, and later arrested, imprisoned, and prosecuted on a charge made against him by one J. L. Xarbro, special agent of the defendant railroad company, for breaking the seal of a box car at Slidell, La., with the intent to commit larceny. He was indicted by the grand jury of St. Tammany parish, tried before a petit jury in the district court of that parish, and acquitted. He instituted this suit for damages, against the railroad’ company, charging that Xarbro, who shot him and had him arrested and imprisoned, was at the time…