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33 Mich. 308

Lott v. Sweet

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided January 20, 1876

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1876-01-20

This action was brought by Lott for an assault and battery and false imprisonment.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently March 1916

2 state decisions

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Decided 1876-01-20

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Per. Curiam:

¶1I. The charge of the court as given covered all the points involved in the several requests which were proper to be given, and was as favorable to the plaintiff as under the evidence was warranted, and the refusal to grant his requests was therefore not error.

¶2II. It is just as competent for a magistrate, as conservator of the peace, to order into custody an insane man who is committing a breach of the peace in his presence, as to order the arrest of a sane person under like circumstances; though an insane person may not be guilty of crime, he may lawfully be prevented from doing harm.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

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