Miller v. Dickert

Moss, Chief Justice.

This appeal arises out of an action brought by Wanna-maker M. Miller, respondent, against E. J. Dickert and V. W. Rinehart, the appellants herein, for false imprisonment.

The respondent, in his complaint, alleges that the appellants are physicians engaged in the practice of medicine in Newberry County, and that on July 31, 1969, they signed a medical certificate that each of them had examined the respondent and found him to be incapable of caring for himself and posed a danger to himself and others. It is then alleged that the appellants signed the medical certificate for…