Legal Opinion

Drake v. Stewart

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided August 24, 1896No. 734PublishedCited by 13 opinions

In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri.

1Opinion of the Court

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

Maud Lord Drake, the plaintiff in error, sued Henry P. Stewart, the marshal of Jackson county, Mo., the defendant in error, for conspiring with one Bloss to detain her in jail overnight, without bail, on a charge of a common assault, for refusing to take or accept offered bail for her appearance to answer for that charge, and for detaining her in jail without bail. At the close of *141the evidence the court instructed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant, and this writ challenges the judgment upon that verdict.

The amended petition upon which the case was tried…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Pettibone v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  2. Spies v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1887
  3. Branch v. FaustIndiana Supreme Court · 1888
  4. Union Pac. Ry. Co. v. JarviCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1892
  5. Archer v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1886

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Speer v. Board of County Com'rsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1898
  2. Chicago G. W. Ry. Co. v. PriceCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1899
  3. State v. WappensteinWashington Supreme Court · 1912
  4. Virtue v. Creamery Package Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1913
  5. Hedrick v. PerryCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1939

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