McGill v. Walnut Realty Co.

This is a suit for damages for alleged false arrest and imprisonment. Plaintiff was Stanley B. McGill and defendant was Walnut Realty Company, a Corporation. Judgment was for plaintiff and defendant appeals.

Defendant's first complaint is that its demurrer to the evidence should have been sustained, because, it says, the evidence failed to establish that defendant's agent "caused, instigated or encouraged" plaintiff's arrest. In this connection defendant claims that the evidence on behalf of plaintiff was wholly circumstantial and that it failed to establish the ultimate fact, claimed by…