Roth v. Shupp

This action was brought to recover damages for the alleged false imprisonment of the appellant. The record shows that while he was in the actual occupancy of a certain tract of land, on the eleventh day of October, 1898, Catherine Shupp, as agent for the alleged owners of the fee, filed with one Gruber, a Justice of the Peace, a sworn complaint, to the effect that the appellant and five other persons, with “ force and arms,” unlawfully ejected, expelled and removed the said owners from the said premises, and still detained the same ; and that therefore she desired and requested the presence…