Rockwell v. Ketchum

Since September 80, 1886, the plaintiff had published the Farmington Herald. Articles appeared therein calculated to rouse the spirit of resentment on the part of those criticised, and in the evening of January 17, 1908, between 6:45 and 6:55 oclock, as plaintiff started home from the postoffice where he had been for his mail, he was seized by four men, testified by him to be defendants Merrick, Cahill, Harnagal, and Schee, who placed him in an omnibus then driven up. They got into the vehicle, and it was driven to the far side of the park, some six blocks distant and stopped. Plaintiff, at…