Legal Opinion

Wiltse v. Holt

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided May 26, 1884No. 11,402PublishedCited by 9 opinions

From the Rush Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the CourtNiblack, J.

Action by Drury Holt, Jr., against Oliver Wiltse, Nathan J. Foust and J. Murray Rawls, for false imprisonment. ■

Wiltse answered separately in three paragraphs. The second paragraph was in general denial, and the first and third set up special matters in defence, to which demurrers were severally sustained.

The plaintiff obtained a verdict and judgment against Wiltse for the sum of $198, but failed in his action against Foust and Rawls. Wiltse, appealing, complains only of the decisions of the circuit court sustaining demurrers to the first and third paragraphs of his answer.

The first paragraph…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Dœring v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1874
  2. Boaz v. TateIndiana Supreme Court · 1873

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Plummer v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1893
  2. Veneman v. JonesIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
  3. Burroughs v. EastmanMichigan Supreme Court · 1894
  4. McHone v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1950
  5. Hopewell v. StateIndiana Court of Appeals · 1899

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