Carey v. Sheets

In this action, the appellees, as plaintiffs, sued the appellant and two other persons, as defendants, in the court below, to recover damages for the alleged arrest, imprisonment and detention of the appellee Mary E. Sheets.

The appellees’ complaint was in two paragraphs.

In the first paragraph, the appellees alleged, in substance, that the appellant and Isaac Carey and J. Hill Davis, defendants, on the 24th day of December, 1875, at Hamilton county, Indiana, with force and arms, arrested and imprisoned and detained the appellee Mary E. Sheets, on the public highway, and subjected her to great…