Hand v. Pettitt

Eldridge, Judge.

Herbert Lawrence Hand sued for battery and damages, both general and punitive, and for an injunction against trespass by Phillip Harold Pettitt for use of a road across Hand’s land, which was shown as an easement on a subdivision plat of the land; Pettitt answered and counterclaimed for false arrest and false imprisonment by locking him in the property where there was a public easement on the road. The trial court granted Pettitt’s motion for a directed verdict that all of the roads shown on the subdivision plat were public roads accessible to all subdivision landowners. On…