Rush v. Buckley
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Two actions for false imprisonment heard together. Each writ dated Jan. 15, 1904. Plea, in each case, the general issue. After all the evidence had been taken out in the court of the first instance, it was agreed that the same should be reported to the Law Court, and that “upon so much thereof as is legally admissible the Court to render such judgment in each case as the law and evidence require.”
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On report. Two actions for false imprisonment heard together. Each writ dated Jan. 15, 1904. Plea, in each case, the general issue. After all the evidence had been taken out in the court of the first instance, it was agreed that the same should be reported to the Law Court, and that “upon so much thereof as is legally admissible the Court to render such judgment in each case as the law and evidence require.” The defendants are Daniel G. Buckley, Herbert W. Fairfield, Albert G. Andreujs, Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Augusta, and Henry N. Breen, City Marshal of said City. Said…
1Opinion of the CourtWiswell, C. J.
The plaintiff had been arrested upon two occasions, brought before the Augusta Municipal Court, tried, convicted, sentenced to pay a fine in each case and committed to jail in default of such payment, upon warrants issued by that court. The offense alleged in the complaint and warrant in each case was the violation of an ordinance of the City of Augusta regulating public carriages therein, and which prohibited all persons from driving such a carriage in the City of Augusta without a license therefor, under a penalty therein provided. In these two cases, reported and argued together, the…
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