Hitchcock v. North

The plaintiff seeks redress in this action for slanderous words uttered against him, and for false imprisonment instigated by the defendant. He represents that he was pointed out by the defendant to the policemen as a suspicious chaiacter, and ordered to be arrested. That he was conducted through the city as a common felon, his pockets searched, and that he was confined in the police jail, where he was obliged to stand up all night. That in the morning, he was put into a cachot, or dungeon, and there watched with other persons, among others, a negro fastened in the stocks. That he was…