Cox v. Perkins

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Latimer

Reversing.

The appellant, Hubert Junior Cox, by bis next friend, J. C. Cox, filed bis petition in tbe Whitley Circuit Court seeking damages for an alleged unlawful, wrongful and malicious imprisonment. He alleged that tbe defendant, Howard H. Perkins, appellee herein, was tbe duly elected, qualified and acting Justice of tbe Peace in and for the Seventh Magisterial District of Wbitley County; that on tbe 27tb day of July, 1943, as such Justice of tbe Peace, tbe defendant issued a warrant of arrest'for appellant, charging him with adultery; that on tbe 3d day…