Canfield v. Gresham

HENRY, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellant • against fifty-six members of the House of Representatives of the Twentieth Legislature, and J. C. Carr, its Sergeant-at-arms, to recover damages alleged to have been caused by his unlawful and malicious arrest and imprisonment.

Among other things the defendants pleaded as follows:

“Defendants further say, that early in the session, and because of the interest of the public in the proceedings of said House of Representatives, and in order that such proceedings might be more fully and accurately reported for transmission to the various…