Livingston v. Burroughs

Marston, J:

This was an action on the case for false imprisonment. Defendant in error made complaint before Caleb J. Barlow, a justice of the peace, upon which a warrant was issued, and plaintiff in error arrested thereon, at the city of Detroit, December 13, 1873. The plaintiff testified on his own behalf that-he was taken before the justice on the evening of the same day that he was arrested, and that he “stayed with the said justice from that time (Saturday, December 13th, 1873) until Monday morning, December 15th, when the said defendant Burroughs appeared, and on his motion the…