Jackson v. City of Humboldt

This an action to recover damages for personal injuries. The evidence of the plaintiff tended to prove that he had been grievously wounded, his face disfigured, his sight permanently impaired, that he had suffered great pain, lost considerable time from his regular occupation of farming, and incurred expenses to a material amount, by the culpable negligence of one of the defendants, a city marshal, in wrongfully admitting into the jail where the plaintiff was confined several persons armed with various weapons, who thereupon assaulted, wounded and injured the plaintiff. Evidence was offered…