MORRILL v. HAMEL


337 Mass. 83 (1958)

148 N.E.2d 283

CHARLES K. MORRILL vs. FRANK E. HAMEL (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

February 28, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Barshak, for the plaintiff.

No argument nor brief for the defendants.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., RONAN, WILLIAMS, COUNIHAN, & CUTTER, JJ.


WILKINS, C.J.

In these actions of tort for false imprisonment against two deputy tax collectors, verdicts for the defendants were directed on the plaintiff's opening. The jury were told that on February 7, 1953, the plaintiff, then on active duty with the United States Air Force, was in uniform at his home in the city of Newburyport when the defendants appeared with a tax warrant issued by the city tax collector. The warrant instructed the defendants to collect the...

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