Mason v. Wrightson

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• concluding a plaintiff was entitled to nominal damages for assault, battery, and false imprisonment
• unlawful search pursuant to a \general order\ by the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City
• “When a peace officer goes beyond the scope of the law [, here an unlawful search and arrest,] he may become liable civilly and is not shielded by the immunity of the law”
• “[A]ny deprivation by one person of the liberty of another without his consent, whether by violence, threat or otherwise, constitutes an imprisonment.” (emphasis added
• Any exercise of force, or threat of force, by which in fact the other person is deprived of his liberty, compelled to remain where he does not wish to remain, or to go where he does not wish to go, is an imprisonment.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).