Schmeider v. McLane

By the Court,

Brown, J.

The plaintiff is the principal of a private school-in the city of Brooklyn, and was arrested by one Jeremiah Clark, a policeman of the city, without process, for riding his horse on the sidewalk on Ninth street, between 3d and 4th avenues, in the presence and view of the officer, and in violation of one of the ordinances adopted by the common council of the city. The arrest was made at 5lj o’clock in the afternoon of the 21st of February, 1861. The defendant Benjamin B. McLane is the captain and the defendant John Dufour the sergeant of the metropolitan police force, 8th…