Colby v. Bingham

By this application it is not sought to restrain the police commissioner from enforcing the criminal law, nor in any way to interfere with him in the performance of his duties; but it is aimed to prevent the defendant Bingham, as police commissioner, and the "defendant Daly, as police captain, from pursuing a course of conduct which, if the facts stated by plaintiff are true, presents a case of gross and brutal oppression and in the last degree an assumption *398of authority which the defendants do not possess. Without charging the plaintiff with the commission of a crime, or presenting to a…