Calderone v. Kiernan

This is trespass for false imprisonment.(2) The defendant pleaded the general issue, and also pleaded specially that at the time of the alleged trespass he was a constable duly qualified to serve civil process; that on the 27th day of. November, 1899, a writ issued out of the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, directed in the usual manner, which writ commanded the arrest of the plaintiff in an action of trover and conversion ; that said writ was placed in the defendant’s hands for service; that he served the same by arresting the plaintiff, and, for want of bail, committed him to…