Armstrong v. Foote

Culver, Judge.

This was an action to recover damages for an assault and battery and false imprisonment, committed by the orders of the defendant, on the 4th of April last. It appears that on the day mentioned the plaintiff, who was employed as a laborer in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was arrested without process by the defendant, who is the executive officer of the yard, and kept in the guard house for about four hours, and until a warrant was procured and an officer came to arrest him for an assault and battery committed on the day previous upon Lieut. Almy, within the yard. On the part of the…