Bright v. Patton
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Motion by defendants for a new trial on bill of exceptions. Action for false imprisonment. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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Motion by defendants for a new trial on bill of exceptions. Action for false imprisonment. The facts are stated in the opinion. Even though the court here might think the motion to take the case from the jury contained in the first bill of exceptions should have been granted at the close of the plaintiff's case; still, the case should not be reversed for that reason, as the defendants abandoned that motion by putting in evidence in their own behalf, which was, in itself, sufficient to require the case to'be submitted to the jury. Grand Trunk B. Co. vs. Cummings, 106 U. S., 700. And the record…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice James
This is an action for false imprisonment. At the time of the alleged wrong the plaintiff was a student at Howard University, in this District, of which the defendant Patton was president. The defendant Hunt was employed there as matron, and the defendant Rhodes was a police officer.
It appears that the plaintiff, upon suspicion and private accusation that she had stolen $15 from a fellow student, was arrested, without process of warrant, by the defendant Rhodes, at the University, taken by him to his own residence, where she was searched by his wife and daughter, and thence taken by him, still…
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