Note 30 — Chapter I · INTENTIONAL INTERFERENCE
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Johnson v. Tompkins, Baldw. C. C. 571, 601; Collins v. Fowler, 10 Ala. 858; Courtoy v. Dozier, 20 Ga. 369; Hawk v. Ridgway, 33 Ill. 473; Brushaber v. Stegemann, 22 Mich. 266; Josselyn v. McAllister, 25 Mich. 45; Moore v. Thompson, 92 Mich. 498; Ahern v. Collins, 39 Mo. 145; Strout v. Gooch, 8 Greenl. 126; Mowry v. Chase, 100 Mass. 79; Emery v. Chesley, 18 N. H. 198; Browning v. Rittenhouse, 40 N. J. Law, 230; Hebrew v. Pulis, 73 N. J. Law, 621; Gold v. Bissell, 1 Wend. 210; Van Voorhees v. Leonard, 1 Thomp. & C. 148; Searls v. Viets, 2 Thomp. & C. 224; Limbeck v. Gerry, 15 Misc. 663; Martin v. Houck, 141 N. C. 317; Huntington v. Shultz, Harp. 452; Mead v. Young, 2 Dev. & Batt. 521; Haskins v. Young, 2 Dev. & Batt. 527; Jones v. Jones, 13 Ired. 448; McCracken v. Ansley, 4 Strob. 1; Gunderson v. Struebing, 125 Wis. 173 Accord.
Submission to wrongful detention by conductor of a train in consequence of his representation of authority to detain plaintiff was held an imprisonment in Whitman v. Atchison R. Co., 85 Kan. 150.
There must be reasonable ground for fear that defendant will use force. Powell v. Champion Fibre Co., 150 N. C. 12.
But compare Cottam v. Oregon City, 98 Fed. 570, deciding that a submission to arrest rather than pay an illegal license fee is not an imprisonment.