Wyatt v. Hill

The action is trespass for false imprisonment. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show, that, on the afternoon of May 28, 1895, the defendants came to his house in Taftsville and asked him if he wished to go with *469them; that he got into the wagon and they drove to the court house in Woodstock; that they there kept watch of him until about four o’clock, when E. A. Thomas, the keeper of the jail at Woodstock, took him to the jail, where he was kept until May 30, 1895, when he was taken before United States Commissioner French, on a warrant issued by said French upon a complaint made out and…