Franck v. Wiegert

The plaintiff in this case alleges her cause of action against the defendant in three counts: (1) For an assault and battery; (2) for malicious prosecution; and (3) for false imprisonment. The plea is the general issue. The circumstances out of which the cause of action arose are these: John O. Franck, husband of the plaintiff, on the 15th day oí January, 1880, by written contract, agreed to sell to the defendant a strip of land in the township of Ecorse, in the county of Wayne, for the sum of eighty dollars per acre, and which agreement was also to be a settlement of all suits then pending…