Anderson v. Dewey
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action against the sheriff of Hartford County for wrongfully permitting a prisoner, confined in jail on civil process, to escape, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County, Smith, J., upon a demurrer to the reply; the court sustained the demurrer, and, upon the refusal of the plaintiff to plead over, rendered judgment for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The complaint alleges that the defendant, as keeper of the jail in the county of Hartford, wrongfully suffered one Rostek to escape from his custody as such keeper.
In his answer the defendant admits that he released Rostek by authority of a certificate issued by a justice of the peace and served upon him, which recited that Rostek while in the jail limits made application to the justice to be permitted to take the oath provided for poor debtors in accordance with General Statutes, § 2946, and that the statutory notice having been duly served upon the judgment creditor, plaintiff herein, and…
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