Maliniemi v. Gronlund

/Morse, C. J.

This is an action for false imprisonment, in which the plaintiff recovered judgment for $750. The only question to .be here considered is whether, upon his own showing, the plaintiff made out a case.

His own story, in substance, is this: He is a native

of Finland, and cannot speak English, and understands it imperfectly. He had worked four years in the mines at Ishpeming, and left there on the 11th day of January, 1891, and went to the city of New York, intending from there to take passage to his native country. The defendant was also a Finn, and agent for a steamboat line in New…