Torbert v. Lynch

This was a suit by Thomas Lynch, against Simon Herr, Henry Torbert, Frank Shattoclc and the City of Brazil, for false imprisonment, and came into the court below on a change of venue from the Clay Circuit Court.

The complaint charged that the defendants violently and unlawfully dragged the plaintiff from his house, imprisoned him, put irons upon him, forced him, thus ironed and manacled, along the public streets and inflicted other indignities upon him.

The City of Brazil demurred separately to the complaint and its demurrer was sustained.

The other defendants answered in two paragraphs :

1. In…