Alexander v. Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. Action by Jennie Alexander against Albert E. Thompson and another. There was a judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff sued to recover damages for alleged false imprisonment; the charge being, in substance, that at the instigation of defendant Thompson (a physician residing at St. Clair, Mich.) plaintiff was on October 27, 1905, unlawfully taken into custody by defendant Moore (then sheriff of St. Clair county), through the latter’s deputies, and on the following day taken to London, Ontario, and there delivered into the custody of the officers of the London Insane Asylum, where she was detained until December 25th following.
This action was begun November 22, 1907. At the…
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