Smith v. Allied Supermarkets, Inc.

BARDGETT, Judge.

In this false arrest case, plaintiff-appellant obtained a circuit court jury verdict in the sum of $1600 actual and $2000 punitive damages. The trial court set aside the verdict and entered judgment for defendants-respondents on the ground that plaintiff failed to make a submissible ease. The issue of whether plaintiff made a submissi-ble case turns principally on whether or not there was sufficient evidence from which a jury could find that defendants directed, countenanced, advised, encouraged, or instigated the arrest.

Plaintiff appealed to the Missouri Court of Appeals, St.…