Hammond v. D. C. Black Inc.

1. Where a person calls police officers to his place of business where there is a man he suspects of having committed a crime, and the officers come, and after taking in the situation arrest the suspected person, and the arrest is illegal, the person calling the officers is not guilty of an illegal arrest where he does not direct or request the making of the arrest, notwithstanding he may acquiesce in the arrest and do nothing to prevent or discourage it. 25 C. J. 470.

2. Where a person summoned a police officer to his place of business where there was a man endeavoring to sell him a diamond,…