Greenwell v. Canyon Lincoln Mercury, Inc.

WILKINS, Justice:

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding plaintiff $12,187.96 special damages, and $50,000 general damages in an action for false imprisonment.

*690All statutory references herein are to Utah Code Annotated, 1953, as amended, unless otherwise indicated.

Plaintiff alleges that defendant caused him to be falsely imprisoned on December 18, 1975. About a week prior to that date, plaintiff, who was then 84 years old, had inquired of defendant concerning the purchase of a four-wheel drive pickup truck. Defendant, who was not a truck dealer, told him that it…