Grace v. Dempsey
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Iowa County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: This is an action for damages for the false imprisonment of the plaintiff by the defendants at Highland, Iowa county, Wisconsin, January 21, 1888. The answer consists of denials, admissions, and the statement of the circumstances as claimed by the defendants.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Iowa County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: This is an action for damages for the false imprisonment of the plaintiff by the defendants at Highland, Iowa county, Wisconsin, January 21, 1888. The answer consists of denials, admissions, and the statement of the circumstances as claimed by the defendants. There was evidence on the trial tending to prove the facts as claimed by the plaintiff and as stated to the jury by the trial court, as follows: “The plaintiff claims that upon January 21,1888, the defendants, with…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
At the time of the occurrence in question, January 21, 1888, the defendant Rev. Father Thomas Dempsey was the pastor of St. Philip’s Catholic Church at Highland, Iowa county, Wisconsin, and had been for several years. During the same time the plaintiff was a lawyer at *319Highland. He had some years before married a cousin of the priest; and he and his wife were both members of that church. Eor some time before the occurrences in question there had been an unfriendliness or misunderstanding between the plaintiff and the priest. The plaintiff wrote and sent to the priest the letter mentioned,…
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