Dunlap v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

Lm, Judge:

The plaintiffs, Ray Dunlap and Denver Dunlap, respectively, recovered judgments of $2,999.00 and $1,500.00 against tbe defendant, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, for false arrest and malicious prosecution.

A sealed freight ear of the defendant was broken into in the nighttime near McCorkle, Lincoln county, and six hundred Camel cigarettes, fourteen pounds of Pay Car scrap tobacco, and other articles, of the total value of $27.50, were taken therefrom. The following morning G. C. Beane, a special officer in the employ of the defendant, accompanied- by Jeff Estep and L. B. Huffman,…