Harris v. Louisville, N. O. & T. R. Co.
United States Circuit Court
At Law. On motion for a new trial. Tlie plaintiff Harris left his home in North Carolina in 1885 to visit the exposition at New Orleans, and with the further object of bettering his financial condition. He carried with him letters of recommendation from a number of people of good position in his native state.
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At Law. On motion for a new trial. Tlie plaintiff Harris left his home in North Carolina in 1885 to visit the exposition at New Orleans, and with the further object of bettering his financial condition. He carried with him letters of recommendation from a number of people of good position in his native state. After trying the lower Mississippi valley for a twelve-month or more without success, lie took deck passage on the steamer Arkansas City for St. Louis, in July, 1886. Among the other passengers on board also bound for St. Louis was a man named McCall, who had been depot agent for the…
1Opinion of the Court
Hammond, J.,
(charging jury.) It is not the least doubtful on the-facts of this case that an enormous outrage has been committed against the plaintiff’s right of personal liberty. That which distinguishes our ■ Anglo-Saxon civilization most of all is its absolute guaranty to every citizen against arbitrary arrest. The only faith which he can have in that. guaranty comes from his reliance on the ministers of the’law to enforce it. His only remedy, short of that individual redress by combat which the-law denies him, is the verdict of a jury against the wrong-doer, and that verdict you cannot…
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