Pearce v. Needham

Per Curiam,

This -was an action on the case for false imprisonment, in which appellee recovered against appellant a judgment for $1,000. The evidence for appellee tended to show that at the time of the arrest he was working as a porter in the Sherman House in Chicago (of which hotel appellant was manager), at a salary of $30 per month. That he was unmarried, and. lodged at the house of one Boylan, his brother-in-law, who was also employed at the Sherman House as porter.

On the day of the arrest appellee was in his room lying on a bed, when appellant, accompanied by the housekeeper of the…