Price v. McConnell

LAWSON, Justice.

This action is by Gertrude Price against Joe McConnell. The one count in the complaint is substantially in Code form (Code 1940, Title 7, § 223, Form 19) and claims damages of the defendant, McConnell, “for unlawfully arresting and imprisoning the plaintiff on a charge of disorderly conduct, for one day, viz., on the 4th day of April, 1945.”

The defendant pleaded not guilty and two special pleas intended to justify the arrest, etc., of the plaintiff on the ground that the plaintiff at the time of her arrest by defendant violated certain ordinances of the town of Fayette, within…