Therriault v. Breton
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions by plaintiff. These are actions of trespass for false imprisonment against the defendants, police officers of the city of Lewiston, and Frank Martin, Jr., who made the complaint. • The plaintiffs, being minors, at the solicitation of their parents and with their knowledge and consent, signed a release to said defendants. Plea, the general issue with brief statements. The verdicts were for plaintiffs in both cases for nominal amounts.
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On exceptions by plaintiff. These are actions of trespass for false imprisonment against the defendants, police officers of the city of Lewiston, and Frank Martin, Jr., who made the complaint. • The plaintiffs, being minors, at the solicitation of their parents and with their knowledge and consent, signed a release to said defendants. Plea, the general issue with brief statements. The verdicts were for plaintiffs in both cases for nominal amounts. The plaintiffs excepted to the admission of the release, and to certain instructions by the court. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHaley, J.
Two actions for false imprisonment of the minor plaintiffs against two police officers of the city of Lewiston, and Frank Martin, Jr., who made a complaint to the other defendants, as police officers of the city of Lewiston, that the plaintiffs had stolen a pig from his pen, whereupon the plaintiffs were arrested in the night time by the defendant officers, and the next forenoon the complainant, claiming that his pig had been put back in the pen, refused to sign a complaint for a warrant, and the parents of the boys being present at the marshal’s office, the plaintiffs were discharged after…
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