Pennsylvania Co. v. Weddle

The questions in this case arise on the ruling denying appellant a new trial. The material facts which the evidence tended to establish are these: The appellee was .arrested upon an affidavit made by James H. Mowatt and was cast into prison where he remained for thirteen days, and was then discharged without a trial. Mowatt had been employed, as is stated in answer to interrogatories propounded by the appellee, “ about the middle of August, 1883, as a detective, for the purpose, in connection with the aid and assistance ■of the proper local police officers, of detecting, and to aid in…