Dauphine v. Herbert

Plaintiff claims of defendants damages in the sum of $285, alleging that, with malice and without probable cause, they reported to the coroner of the Parish of Orleans that plaintiff was insane and should be committed to an institution, and that one of them signed the "commitment book" in the coroner's office and thus instituted the proceeding, as a result of which plaintiff was "arrested, imprisoned, battered, assaulted, defamed, embarrassed, humiliated," and because of which plaintiff also sustained "loss of wages, time, face, prestige, and health." Plaintiff also alleges that she was taken…