Lewis v. Hopkins
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for an assault, for a slander, and for a trespass to land, brought before a justice of the peace and thence, by the defendant’s appeal, to the Superior Court in Windham County (Hinman, /.), where judgment was rendered sustaining a plea in abatement filed by the defendant in the justice court, from which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, C. J.
The finding upon the hearing on the plea in abatement developed that this action was not begun otherwise than by the garnishment of $100 on deposit with the prosecuting attorney for the town of Killingly as bail for the defendant’s appearance in a criminal action begun on June 20th, 1919, in the Town Court in said town. In this action the defendant pleaded guilty to a charge of breach of the peace, and was found guilty by the court, and paid the fine imposed, with the costs, on July 1st, 1919, and the judgment therein recites “and thereupon the said Luther Hopkins, having complied with said…
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