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Show ARMSTRONG CASE ON TRIAL The case of. James Armstrong against H. H. Cordon and the Southern South-ern Pacific and Oregon Short Lino railway companies was talcon up for trial. Armstrong Is pulng the company for $5,000 damages for alleged false imprisonment He alleges that on September 8, 1910, he was arrested by the defendants and landed In Jail without a complaint having been filed against him and that the arrest made without warrant. The plaintiff states that the defendant defend-ant caused him to bo held in Jail four days, that he suffered the humiliation of not being held in jail but that ho wa3 compelled to furnish a bond for his release when a formal charge was ' filed against him The dfondants arrested him, he says In his com-plaint, com-plaint, on tho erroneous presumption that he had committed theft from the railroad company, but that, when the case was called for hearing by tho municipal court, the county attorney, of his own motion, dismissed it. |