Knowles v. Bullene, Moore, Emory & Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Jaclcson Circuit Court. — Hon. E. L„ Scareitt, Judge. (1) The instructions for plaintiff, and defendants’ instruction 2, as modified and given by the court, permitted and required the jury to find express authority from the firm to the floorwalker to arrest on information, of which authority there was no proof, and it was affirmatively disproven. This was error. Mfg. Co. v. Ball, 43 Mo.
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Appeal from the Jaclcson Circuit Court. — Hon. E. L„ Scareitt, Judge. (1) The instructions for plaintiff, and defendants’ instruction 2, as modified and given by the court, permitted and required the jury to find express authority from the firm to the floorwalker to arrest on information, of which authority there was no proof, and it was affirmatively disproven. This was error. Mfg. Co. v. Ball, 43 Mo. App. 504. (2) The modification by the court of defendants’ instruction 6, telling the jury that they could not find that there was no arrest unless plaintiff went to the office “of her own…
1Opinion of the CourtGill, J.
This is an action for an illegal arrest and false imprisonment alleged to have been committed against the plaintiff by defendant’s employees -in charge of one floor of their large department store at Kansas City. Plaintiff’s evidence was to the effect that in the afternoon of April 29, 1892, she visited defendants’ store, and while there, waiting to meet a lady friend, she was arrested by the floorwalker, taken against her will into the superintendent’s office, and there detained on the charge of stealing a piece of lace; that she was forced to take off her coat and turn the pockets wrong…
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