State ex rel. Price v. Honeycutt

Tbe relator caused tbis action to be brought for recovery against tbe sheriff and tbe American Indemnity Company, surety on bis bond, for damages resulting from excessive force used in an attempt to arrest tbe plaintiff by tbe said sheriff under color of bis office.

Tbe complaint, amongst other more formal matters, sets up that tbe sheriff, while acting under color of bis office, “viciously assaulted, severely wounded and permanently and seriously injured, and arrested tbe relator herein and imprisoned him in tbe common jail of said county and there confined him forcibly and against bis will,…