Sauskelonis v. City of New Britain
Supreme Court of Connecticut
.Action in the nature of assumpsit for money had and received, brought before a justice of the peace and thence by the defendants’ appeal to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the court, Smith, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtRoraback, J.
The defendant Herting, on February 9th, 1910, was a sergeant of police for the city of New Britain and the acting captain of police, in charge of the police station in the city and of the prisoners confined therein at that time. The plaintiff was arrested by one Skelly, a policeman of the city, upon a warrant issued under a complaint charging the plaintiff with a breach of the peace. The arrest was made in the evening, when the Police Court was not in session, nor was the clerk or judge of the court present at the police station when Skelly brought the plaintiff to the station. Skelly…
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