Brown v. Jerome

This is an action of trespass, brought in the circuit court, by Jerome against Brown, for assault and battery, and unlawful imprisonment, alleged to have been committed by the defendant upon the person of plaintiff. Defendant justified the arrest by a plea setting up the recovery of a judgment by the town of Bantoul against plaintiff, of $10, as a fine for a violation of an ordinance of that town, and the issuance of process upon that judgment by the police magistrate of the town before whom the judgment was recovered, and the delivery thereof to the defendant, a constable, to be executed. To…