Beckwith v. Bean
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Vermont.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This is an action by Andrew J. Bean against Beckwith and Henry, plaintiffs in error, for assault and battery and false imprisonment. It was commenced in the year 1865, in the *267County Court of Orange County, Vermont, and was tbenee removed for trial into the Circuit Court of the United States for that district. The defendants pleaded not guilty, and also filed several special pleas. At a former term, the case was brought to this court upon a certificate of division in opinion between the circuit and the district judge as to the sufficiency of some of those special pleas. We adjudged them to be…
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