Southwestern Portland Cement Co. v. Reitzer

On Motion for Rehearing.

In this motion it is insisted that we erred in holding that defendant could not be held liable for any damages sustained by plaintiff by reason of the mock trial he was subjected to by the prisoners with whom he was incarcerated. ,

We do not understand that plaintiff’s counsel question the soundness of the principle that only such damages are recoverable in a case of this character as flow from the false imprisonment as its natural and probable sequence in a continuous, unbroken sequence, but that the insistence is that the indignities he received from ‘being kangarooed…