Price v. . Honeycutt

The relator caused this action to be brought for recovery against the sheriff and the American Indemnity Company, surety on his bond, for damages resulting from excessive force used in an attempt to arrest the plaintiff by the said sheriff under color of his office.

The complaint, amongst other more formal matters, sets up that the sheriff, while acting under color of his office, "viciously assaulted, severely wounded and permanently and seriously injured, and arrested the relator herein and imprisoned him in the common jail of said county and there confined him forcibly and against his will,…