Holliday v. Coleman

This was an action for damages for false imprisonment. The plaintiff testified that certain of the defendants, without authority from him and without instituting condemnation proceedings in behalf of a telephone company which they represented, began erecting telephone poles on his land and stringing wires along the poles. He ordered the poles removed, and, when the defendants refused to remove them, he began pulling them down. Thereupon a constable was sent for, and, by the direction of the other defendants, arrested the plaintiff, without a warrant, and detained him for about an hour and a…