Fort Worth Hotel Co. v. Waggoman

This suit was instituted in a District Court of Tarrant County, Texas, by B. L. Waggoman against Fort Worth Hotel Company, a corporation, W. H. Bryant, and C. Leahy (and others not involved in this appeal), for false imprisonment, seeking actual and exemplary damages.

Waggoman alleged he had been a citizen of Fort Worth for 57 years, during which time he had conducted himself as a law-abiding person, and that by his life and conduct he had established that reputation in said city, county and state. That one Bob Lentz, at the time of the matters complained of, was a house detective for the…