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HURLEY v. TOWNE

156 A.2d 377 (1959)

Fred T. HURLEY, Jr., v. Charles E. TOWNE et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

November 23, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. M. Davis, Skowhegan, Bird & Bird, Waterville, for plaintiff.

Locke, Campbell, Reid & Hebert, Augusta, for defendants.

Before WILLIAMSON, C. J., and WEBBER, TAPLEY, SULLIVAN, DUBORD and SIDDALL, JJ.

SULLIVAN, Justice.

This is an action in false imprisonment. The declaration and specifications thereunder aver that the plaintiff was sane but that his wife addressed to the municipal officers a complaint that he was insane and should therefore be confined in a State Hospital; that the municipal officers upon the written certificate of the defendants who are physicians committed the plaintiff to an insane hospital as an emergency...

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