Kernan v. Chamberlin

This is an action in damages for slander, false imprisonment, and assault and battery. The petition charges, in substance, that the plaintiff having entered the store of defendant, with a view to buy some German silver spoons, and having made for a lot of said article an offer, which the defendant seemed unwilling to take, he left the store, when Chamberlin followed him into the street, and there publicly charged him, before a great many persons, with being a thief and a robber, and asserted loudly and repeatedly, that the plaintiff had entered his store with the felonious intent of stealing…