Lange v. Benedict

99 U.S. 68

25 L.Ed. 469

LANGE

v.

BENEDICT.

October Term, 1878

MOTION to dismiss a writ of error to the Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

This action was brought by Edward Lange in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, to recover damages for his alleged unlawful imprisonment by Charles L. Benedict, District Judge of the United States for the Eastern District of New York, who as such, by virtue of an act of Congress, held the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York at the October Term thereof, 1873.

At that term, so held by said Benedict, Lange was tried…