United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. State ex rel. Hardy

Citations

• 121 Miss. 369
• 83 So. 610

Syllabus

<p>Intoxicating Liquors. Damages allowed for mental suffering caused 6y illegal search and seizure.</p> <p>Where plaintiff when alighting from a train, intrusted her suit case to a transfer man and just after alighting, the city marshal searched the suit case for alcoholic liquors supposed to belong to the transfer man over his protest and without a search-warrant, in such case the defendant marshal was violating Constitution 1890, section 23, relating to unreasonable search and seizure and since he was presumed to know the law, his act was a willful wrong and mental suffering was a proper element of damages.</p>