Bushardt v. United Investment Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Marion.

This was an action for damages on account of alleged false imprisonment arising out of the following facts:

On or about the 20th of January, 1921, F. S. Strickland, a police officer, the chief of detectives of the City of Columbia, received a report of the commission of a robbery at a store in Washington Street in said City. The information was conveyed to him by a negro boy who worked “in the front of-the Regal Drug Store” as. a “soda jerker.” The boy claimed to have been held up at the point of a. pistol and “robbed of what cash was…