Pinkerton v. Verberg

This action is brought by plaintiff to recover damages for assault and illegal arrest. Defendant, at the time of the arrest, was a policeman of the city of Kalamazoo, and claims to have arrested plaintiff because she was a street-walker.

It appears that plaintiff lived on Kalamazoo avenue east, and sometime in the forepart of August, 1888, went from her own homo to a sister’s, living on the corner of Church and Eleanor streets, in the city. There she met a younger sister, and the two went down into the city upon the main street; called into the Watkins House closets; and after plaintiff had…