Case ID: sd_7/html/0461-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Fuller, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Winton v. Kirby et al.
    
    This case is ruled by Winton v. Knott (S. D.) 63 N. W. 783,
    (Syllabus by tbe Court.
    Opinion filed Oct, 1, 1895,)
    Appeal from circuit court, Minnehaha county, Hon. Joseph W. Jones, Judge.
    Action for false imprisonment. Defendants had judgment, and plaintiff appeals.
    Affirmed.
    The facts are stated in the opinion, and in Winton v. Knott, 63 N. W. 783 and 7 S. D.
    
      W. A, Wilkes, Davis, Lyon & Qcites pmcl Mplvin Grigsby, for appellant.
    
      The justice court being without such authority, the action being one in which the defendant could not originally have been arrested, a like inhibition follows the case into the appellate court. Wells on Jurist, § 65; Cooban v. Bryant 36 Wis. 612; Taylor v. Smith, 64 111. 446; 1 Am. Eng. Ency. Law, 623; Liresey v. San-, ders, 3 Abb. Pr. 176; Keeler' v, Clark, 18 Id. 156; Carpenter v.Willett, 18 How. Pr. 405; 2 Waits Law and Pr. 87. The jurisdiction of the county court to issue a writ for a body execution may be inquired into by the circuit court in an action for damages for-false imprisonment thereunder, Wells Juris, 15; Hickey v. Stewr art, 3 How. 819; Thompson v. Whitman,.18 Wall. 897; Bodengas. v. Savings, 63 N. T. App. 464; Bissell v. Briggs, 9 Mass.- 462;-Pennywit v. Foote, 27 O. St. 600; 12 Am. and Eng. Ency. Law,.-. 308. The statute for arrests confers a special, and extraordinary-power which interferes with the liberties of persons and so must be strict!y consumed. Spicer v. Steinruck, 14 Ost. 213; Vander-'. burg v. Hendrix, 17 Barb. 179; VanLathon v. Libly, 38 Barb. 339;. There is a plain difference between a case for the enforcement of a private right and a complaint for a criminal charge. Gifford v. - Wiggins, 18 L. B. A. 357; Teal v. Fissel, 28 Fed. 351; Bunestell v. Bonestell, 28 Wis. 245.
   Fuller, J.

Plaintiff brought this action against the defendants to recover damages based upon a claim of false imprisonment and appeals to this court from a judgment in favor of the defendants, and from an order overruling a motion for a new trial. The-"arrest and imprisonment complained of was found,by this court to be fully justified in Winton v. Knott (S. D.) 63 N. W. 783, where all the questions presented by this appeal are discussed, and determined adversely to appellant. Buled by that c-ftso, the judgment of the tr;ql court is affirmed.