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[1736] 1 Elchies 522
Subject_1 WRONGOUS IMPRISONMENT.
Paterson
v.
Anderson
1736 ,Dec. 14 .
Case No.No. 2.
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The Lords adhered to their interlocutor of 18th November finding it came under the act against wrongous imprisonment. Several were of a different opinion, because Anderson was no Magistrate or Judge, though overseer of a corporation or fraternity of trades; but what determined me and others was that he acted as one having authority to imprison.
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