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Torts Keyed to Henderson
Whittaker v. Sanford
Citation:
110 Me. 77, 85 A. 399 (1912)Facts
The plaintiff was a member of a religious sect that had colonies in Maine and Jaffa, Syria. The defendant was the leader of this religious sect. The plaintiff, while in Jaffa, announced her intention to leave the sect, and the defendant persuaded her to return to the United States on the sect’s palatial yacht, The Kingdom. The defendant promised the plaintiff that she and her children would be free to leave the ship at any time once they were in port. Once they docked in Maine, the defendant refused to allow the plaintiff to go ashore. The plaintiff eventually gained her release on a writ of habeas corpus. There was evidence that the plaintiff had been allowed to go ashore a number of times and that she had been treated as a guest on the yacht. No one ever physically restrained the plaintiff other than disallowing her from using the rowboats to get ashore.
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