Supreme Court of Iowa December 19, 1900 (Lahner v. Incorporated Town)

Granger, O. J.

The petition shows that the defendant is a municipal corporation under the laws of this state; that the officers of said corporation arrested plaintiff .in 1898, without legal cause or excuse, and unlawfully, cruelly, and inhumanly treated him by imprisoning him in a certain dirty, filthy lockup, or calaboose, used by the defendant as a prison.