Cavitt v. McCrite

In the complaint in this case, there are, separately stated, three causes of action. By the first, the plaintiff sought general damages for wrongful imprisonment. By the second and third, he sought special damages resulting from the alleged wrongful imprisonment. The defendants answered separately, denying liability and setting out an order of the superior court of Clark county which directed the sheriff of that county to take the plaintiff into custody and confine him in the county jail. By a reply to these answers, the plaintiff alleged that the order by reason of which he was taken into…