Hildebrand v. McCrum

Best, C.

This action was brought by the appellee against the appellants for false imprisonment.

The second paragraph of the complaint, upon which the cause was tried, averred, in substance, that the appellants,, John H., George W., William W., Henry, Nancy and Elizabeth Hildebrand and Marshall M. Tidsworth, unlawfully conspired together for the purpose of wrongfully compelling the appellee to admit a promise of marriage with Elizabeth Hildebrand, and thus to extort from him one thousand dollars as damages for breach of such promise; that in pursuance of such conspiracy two of the appellants,…