Ussery v. Haynes

Appeal by defendants from an order of the circuit court sustaining plaintiff's motion for new trial. The action is for false imprisonment. It was instituted in the circuit court of Saline County and sent on change of venue to Howard County, where it was tried. Plaintiff's petition was in two counts, each praying $10,000 actual damages, the first being for false imprisonment and the second for malicious prosecution, and named seven defendants — the five appellants and J.S. Ussery, plaintiff's husband and Ralph Hanks, Superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane, at Fulton, Missouri.…