Bright v. Sawyer

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

This case seems to have been tried on counts 1, A, and B, and which we construe as for false imprisonment as distinguished from a malicious prosecution.

The mere fact that West was the defendant’s agent to visit the plaintiff for the purpose of collecting a debt did not in and of itself give West the authority to arrest the plaintiff for or in behalf of the defendant so as to render him liable therefor, unless the defendant procured the arrest or ratified same; and this seems to have been the ruling of the trial court.

The plaintiff, however, sought to connect the…