Harris v. Sims

The state of Mississippi, for the use of Titus Harris, a minor, seventeen years of age, filed a declaration against A. M. Sims, a justice of the peace in Lee county, Mississippi, and the sureties on his official bond, for damages for the false imprisonment, therein alleged, of Titus •Harris by Sims, the justice of the peace.

There was a verdict of the jury for seventy-five dollars and a judgment therefor entered by the circuit court, and the plaintiff filed his motion for a new trial on the ground of the inadequacy of the damages, which being overruled, an appeal is prosecuted to this court by…