Barling v. West

APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Oreen County. Action to recover damages from tbe defendants for forcibly assaulting and arresting tbe plaintiff without warrant, and taking him before a justice of tbe peace, and bolding him in custody until discharged by such justice. Tbe defendants justified the arrest on tbe ground that they were officers of tbe village of Monroe, authorized and required to enforce tbe laws and ordinances of tbe village, and that tbe plaintiff, at tbe time of tbe arrest, was forcibly resisting a lawful attempt by them as such officers to remove a stand or temporary counter…