McDonald v. Lane
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Municipal corporations. Streets and sidewalks. Brunswick. Tax. Damages. Judicial cognizance. Before Judge Atkinson. Glynn superior court. May term, 1887. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
Fred Lane brought suit against Allen McDonald for damages. He alleged that in August, 1885, he paid his *498street-tax for that year to the mayor and council of the city of Brunswick, and took their receipt therefor; and that on the 26th of January, 1886, McDonald, a policeman of that city, arrested him on the public streets of the city, on the charge of having failed to pay his street-tax, although he protested to the officer that he had paid said tax; and that the officer carried him to the guardhouse of the city and locked him up, and he was detained there all night, and until…
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