Morrill v. Hamel

In these actions of tort for false imprisonment against two deputy tax collectors, verdicts for the defendants were directed on the plaintiff’s opening. The jury were told that on February 7, 1953, the plaintiff, then on active duty with the United States Air Force, was in uniform at his home in the city of Newburyport when the defendants appeared with a tax warrant issued by the city tax collector. The warrant instructed the defendants to collect the excise tax on the plaintiff’s automobile and failing that to arrest and incarcerate him. The warrant was regular on its face, and all the…