Case Name: Moulton v. Burbanks
Court: Connecticut Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1791-03
Citations: 1 Root 264
Docket Number: 
Parties: Moulton v. Burbanks.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 264–264

Head Matter:
Moulton v. Burbanks.
In an action for assault and battery and false imprisonment, an allegation that the defendant forged a justice’s name to a writ, by which he was falsely imprisoned doth not vitiate the declaration.
Ebboe to reverse a judgment of a justice in an action of assault and battery and false imprisonment brought by Bur-banks v. Moulton, alleging that the defendant assaulted and beat him, and forged Justice Cady’s name to a writ, by which he was falsely imprisoned. Plea not guilty. Judgment, that the defendant was guilty.
Error assigned —■ That the plaintiff’s declaration is insufficient.

Opinion:
Judgment— That there is nothing erroneous; the plaintiff's alleging the forgery, is only by way of aggravation, and to show the means by which he was falsely imprisoned.