Van Deusen v. Newcomer
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kalamazoo. Trespass on the case. The facts are stated.
1Opinion of the CourtCooley, J.
On the first day of October, 1874, Mrs. Newcomer, the defendant in error, being at the passenger house of the Michigan Central Railroad at Albion, *123was forcibly taken and put aboard the cars of that railroad and removed to the Michigan Asylum for the Insane at Kalamazoo, where she was restrained of her liberty until the fourth day of August following. The persons chiefly instrumental in procuring this confinement were her son-in-law and his mother, with whom she had had difficulty, but her daughter gave assent. The person who accompanied her on the cars and to the asylum was one of the…
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