Sellers v. Lofton

Appellee brought this action in the circuit court of the Second district of Jones county against appellants Sellers and Owen, two policemen of ■the city of Laurel, and the sureties on their official bonds, to recover damages claimed to have been suffered by appellee at their hands, resulting from an unlawful search of appellee’s automobile by them for intoxicating liquor, and for an assault and battery committed by them on appellee during such search, and recovered a verdict and judgment, from which judgment appellants prosecute this appeal. (For convenience, Sellers and Owen will be referred…