Legal Opinion
Williams v. Tharp
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided September 30, 2010No. 29A02-1003-CT-283PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CRONE, Judge.
Case Summary
Thomas Williams and Sanford Kelsey were handcuffed and detained for over an hour in Williams's driveway after Kelly Eugene Tharp, a Papa John's pizza delivery driver, told a passerby and a police officer that Kelsey had "pulled a gun" inside the Papa John's restaurant where Kelsey and Williams had recently paid for and picked up their pizza. Police searched Williams and Kelsey in full view of their families and neighbors and found no gun. The two men sued Tharp and his employer, Papa John's U.S.A., Inc., for defamation, false imprisonment, negligence, and…
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