Rains v. Mercantile National Bank at Dallas

AKIN, Justice.

Plaintiff appeals from a summary judgment granted the defendant in a suit by plaintiff for false arrest and false imprisonment. Plaintiff was arrested at the instance of defendants for violation of the criminal trespass statute because he distributed leaflets in defendant’s office buildings contrary to defendant’s repeated admonitions not so to do. Plaintiff argues that the summary judgment cannot be sustained for his arrest for a violation of Tex.Penal Code Ann. § 30.05 (Vernon 1974), the criminal trespass statute, because that statute should not be interpreted to encompass his…