Western National Bank v. White

LEVY, Associate Justice.

Appellee sued J. G. Swofford, sheriff of Hood County, and the Hood County State Bank and the Western National Bank of Fort Worth to recover damages for his alleged false arrest upon a charge of swindling the Hood County State Bank. By the ■petition all the defendants below were jointly charged with making the arrest maliciously, and the Western National Bank was also charged with the ratification of the arrest after it had been made. The suit as to the sheriff was dismissed hy appellee, and in a jury trial the court peremptorily instructed a verdict in favor of the…