W. Judson's Answer

W. JUDSON'S ANSWER

He Acted Under Advice of His Counsel

Canfield Also Replies to Editor Moran and Demands a Trial on That False Imprisonment Suit.

Ex-Sheriff William Judson and ex-Deputy Sheriff Lester Canfield today filed their plea in the damage case against them brought for false imprisonment by Selby A. Moran, the redoubtable editor of the Register and demand a trial. They also serve notice that "the defendant Lester Canfield will give in evidence in his defense under the general issue pleaded that throughout the transactions alleged against him in the declaration in this cause he acted as deputy sheriff of the county of Washtenaw under the authority ad by virtue of a certain capias and respondendum issued out of and under the seal of said court on April 1, 1898, in a certain cause wherein said William Judson was plaintiff and the said Selby A. Moran was defendant directed to the sheriff of said county commanding him to take said defendant if found in his bailiwick and keep him in custody until he should be discharged according to law and that he, the said defendant Canfield, was justified by law in whatever acts be performed in relation to the transactions alleged in said defendants' declaration.

"The defendant, William Judson, will give in evidence in his defense under the general issue above pleaded that he laid before two attorneys at law in good standing, who had been employed as his counsel for that purpose full and fair statement of the facts relevant to the transactions alleged in said declaration and acted honestly and in good faith upon the advice given him by his said counsel in every step taken in relation to the act charged in said declaration; that if my writ was illegally directed to the sheriff of said county for service it was so directed by the advice under the instruction of his said counsel and not by any act or request of this defendant."