Hawkins v. Lutton
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Douglas •county: Chaeles Smith, Judge. This was an action to recover damages for an alleged false imprisonment of the plaintiff by the defendant Lutton, the ■city marshal of the city of Superior, and his five codefend-ants, policemen of said city.
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Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Douglas •county: Chaeles Smith, Judge. This was an action to recover damages for an alleged false imprisonment of the plaintiff by the defendant Lutton, the ■city marshal of the city of Superior, and his five codefend-ants, policemen of said city. The plaintiff charges the defendants with having assaulted and imprisoned the plaintiff, „ and deprived her of her liberty for the space of one day, May 18, 1895, contrary to her will, etc. The defendants .•answered jointly, in substance, though in a .crude and imperfect manner, that they were at the…
1Opinion of the CourtPiNNey, J.
1. The ordinance for the violation of which *the defendants arrested the plaintiff provides that “any person who shall, within the limits ... be an inmate of, visit, resort to, frequent, or be found in a disorderly house or place, ■or a house of ill fame, or a place resorted to for the purpose of prostitution, assignation, fornication, or for the resort of persons of ill fame, or ill name, or dishonest conversation, or common prostitutes, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished,” etc. The trial court held that a house could not be considered a disorderly house unless it was a house of ill…
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