McClaughrey v. King

ROGERS, District Judge.

The plaintiffs allege for their cause of action that they are citizens of the state of Illinois, and the defendant is the duly qualified and acting sheriff of the county of Johnson and state of Arkansas, and a citizen of that state; that on February 5, 1902, the Bank of Clarksville, in Johnson county, Ark., was robbed by a man known, among other names, by that of Fred Underwood, and other parties acting in concert, and in robbing the bank they killed the sheriff of Johnson county, John A. Powers; that shortly thereafter the defendant, who was the successor in office of…