May v. Sly

This was an action of trespass for an assault and battery and false imprisonment. The defendant pleaded in justification, that on, &c., he was a constable of the township of Madison, in the county of Montgomery; that a writ of capias ad satisfaciendum was issued by a justice of the peace of said county and delivered to him, whereby, after reciting that one Thomas M. Curry had obtained a judgment against the plaintiff, May, for the sum of 26 dollars and 12 cents before said justice, besides interest and costs, the defendant was commanded to take the body of May to satisfy said Curry the…