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4 Blackf. 126

Hunter v. Harris

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided December 4, 1835

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1835-12-04

Decided 1835-12-04

¶1TRESPASS for breaking the plaintiff’s close and taking away his goods. Pleas, 1. Not guilty. 2. That Harris was a justice of the peace and had rendered a judgment against the plaintiff at the suit of the other defendant; that the trespass was committed by a constable under an execution issued on that judgment, &c. Issues were joined, and the cause was submitted to the Court. The plaintiff proved the trespass; but the defendants, as to the justification, gave no evidence whatever that Harris was a justice of the peace. Judgment below for the defendants.

¶2The Court reversed the judgment at the defendants’ costs, and remanded the cause for another trial.

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