Escurix v. Daboval
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL. DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF ST. JAMES, THE JUDGE OF THE FOURTH PRESIDING. This is an action to recover damages for false imprisonment. The case was before this court in February, 1835, and remanded for a new trial. The facts of the case are stated in the former trial in this court.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL. DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF ST. JAMES, THE JUDGE OF THE FOURTH PRESIDING. This is an action to recover damages for false imprisonment. The case was before this court in February, 1835, and remanded for a new trial. The facts of the case are stated in the former trial in this court. See 7 Louisiana Reports, 575. The present defendant having obtained a judgment against Escurix, the plaintiff in this suit, caused execution to issue thereon, in which a slave was seized and sold, and the proceeds of sale was enjoined in the sheriff’s hands by the wife…
1Opinion of the CourtEustis, J.
This is an action of damages for false imprisonment. The plaintiff complains that he was arrested on the second day of October, 1832, under a writ of capias ad satisfaciendum, illegally issued by the defendant; that he was imprisoned for more than five weeks under said writ, and having given security for the prison limits, which are co-extensive with the parish of Ascension, that he was detained there for ten months, his place of residence being in the parish of St. James at the time; there are the usual charges of malice on the part of the defendant, in relation to this imprisonment and…
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