Casey v. Viall
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Exceptions to the Court of Common Pleas. The case is stated in tbe opinion of the court. The notice in this case was returned to the jail at five o’clock P. M. Saturday, November 10, 1888, and the prisoner was liberated before midnight of Sunday, November 11, 1888. Under the defendant’s construction of the law, the plaintiff was bound to come in and pay the said Beane’s board before midnight, November 10, because he could not do it on Sunday without violating the statutes of…
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Exceptions to the Court of Common Pleas. The case is stated in tbe opinion of the court. The notice in this case was returned to the jail at five o’clock P. M. Saturday, November 10, 1888, and the prisoner was liberated before midnight of Sunday, November 11, 1888. Under the defendant’s construction of the law, the plaintiff was bound to come in and pay the said Beane’s board before midnight, November 10, because he could not do it on Sunday without violating the statutes of this State, and thus, instead of having twenty-four hours as provided in the statutes, he would only have had seven…
1Per curiam
This is trespass on the case against the defendant, as keeper of the Providence County jail, for suffering one Eben J. Beane, a prisoner for debt in said jail, to escape therefrom November 11, a. d. 1888. The plaintiff recovered judgment for $1,275 debt and $37.65 costs against said Beane in this court, November 22, a. d. 1887. One James H. Tower was bail for said Beane on the original writ in the suit in which said judgment was recovered, and committed said Beane to jail in said suit in discharge of himself as bail, November 9, a. d. 1888. The next day he caused C. E. Baldwin, Esq., the…
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