Knupp v. Esslinger

CROSS, Judge.

Plaintiff sues for damages resulting from an alleged false arrest and imprisonment instigated by defendant. The amount prayed for is $15,000.00. The case was tried to a jury upon the pleaded averment that “defendant * * * unlawfully caused plaintiff to be arrested and taken into cus tody and thereafter to be imprisoned and placed in the City Jail * * * ”. The jury réturned a verdict in defendant’s favor. Thereafter the trial court sustained plaintiff’s motion for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was against the greater weight of the credible evidence,- and, in the…