Cline v. Tait

The defendants sheriff and his surety appeal from a judgment against them for $6,000 for false imprisonment. The complaint recited that on the night of April 2,1936, the sheriff, Tait, “took plaintiff prisoner,” imprisoned him in the county jail of Musselshell county until the afternoon of April 3rd, .and then without authority removed plaintiff from the said jail, “unlawfully spirited” him from the county, removed him to Great Falls and imprisoned him in the jail of Cascade county “where plaintiff was so confined and imprisoned unlawfully until the 4th day of April, 1936”; that these acts…