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- WAsHISGToS Nov. IL, lS45
Ctrcmf Comt-fieider Robinson, (colore) rs Jesse f.


Der, Jor an alleged False Imprisonmenf &c Damages


lad al $4,000.


This case up before the Circuit Court oaay and
the particulars upon which this action based are
follows: -


Some time in August. ls43 imme ediately after the trial
Oh H. r. Dowden, tor an alleged embez element of Trea-
say notes Jesse T. Dow ESQ., ofthe Justices Of the
resce ior the county Of Washington, in the District OF
Columbia issued warrant (at the instance it is said of
his Excelency, John Tyler, President OF the United
states for the arrest OF Fielder Robinson the negro up
pom whom the said Treasury notes foundtha the
SAID warrant was placed in the hands of j. " Patten
constable Tor the aforesaid county to arrest the said
Feldor Robinson ad bring him before the said Jesse T.
DOW uhe defendant in this cause Justice of the Peace
&c-that the aforesaid Paten proceeded to Piney Point
where the said Fielder Robinson, the plantif and
arrested him. brought him TO this District carried him
before the said Jesse r. Dow by whom he was commit
ted TO jail IN default OF security.


Messrs. JAMts HoBAN and May appeared for the de-
fence, and NJ CARLISLE and RICHARD S. CoxE for the
plaintiff


The counsel for the plaintiff argued that he was ille
gally arrested and that fom which took
place between the officer arrestng the plaintiff and Ri
chard Coke, Esq Zone of the counsel in this cause
was an illegal one; and hence this action damages
the arrest set FORTH being without the jurisdiction of
the magistrate, and that in this alleged arrest &c there
was an agency existing between the officer Patten and
the magistrate with regard 20 the arrest On the
other hand 1t was contended by the defence that there
was no connection or agreement between the parties
thozing and making the arrest in the alluded
Alter the examination of witness two the case
postponed to Monday next.