Marlowe v. Piner

LEWIS, Judge.

Plaintiffs commenced this action to recover damages alleged to have resulted from their false arrest and imprisonment by defendant. The trial court granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment, and plaintiffs appeal.

On 18 March 1992 at approximately 7:30 p.m., defendant, a deputy with the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Department, responded to a call regarding a “mental subject.” Defendant met with Doanie Walston, the husband of the “mental subject,” at a gas station and followed Mr. Walston to his home. Mrs. Walston was intoxicated ánd had driven her car through the family’s…