Mr. Justice WAYNE delivered the opinion of the court. The plaintiff brought an action for assault and battery and .false imprisonment, charging that the defendant imprisoned him in the penitentiary of the District of Columbia. The defendant pleaded the general issue, and several special pleas, in which he denied the force and injury, and set up, that he, as mars…
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