Gold v. Campbell

NEILL, Associate Justice.

—Samuel Gold sued George C. Campbell and the sureties on his official bond as chief of police of the city of El Paso, to recover $495 actual and $100 exemplary damages for false imprisonment alleged to have been effected by plaintiff having been unlawfully arrested and imprisoned by one George Miller without a warrant while acting under the direction and command of the defendant Campbell.

The defendants answered by general and special exceptions to plaintiff’s petition, a general denial, and pleaded specially, in justification . of the imprisonment, a certain ordinance…