Burden v. Hendrix

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sampson

Reversing.

Appellee Hendrix instituted this action in the Ohio circuit court against Walter Burden, marshal of the city of Fordsville, and Allison Haynes, judge of the police court of that city, to obtain an injunction restraining the said officers from taking further proceedings under a judgment rendered against him in the police court of that city on a charge of being drunk in a public place, in which proceeding he was fined $10.00 by the police court under an ordinance reading:

“Any person who shall be drunk or drink any intoxicating liquor, in the…