Legal Opinion
Day v. Wells Fargo Guard Service Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Decided June 17, 1986No. 67835PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BILLINGS, Judge.
Plaintiff Paul M. Day filed an action against his former employer, defendant Wells Fargo Guard Service, [hereinafter Wells Fargo] for instigating and encouraging the St. Louis Police Department to falsely arrest plaintiff. The jury returned a verdict awarding plaintiff $15,000 in actual damages and $30,000 in punitive damages. We transferred the case following an opinion by the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District. Mo. Const, art. V, § 10. We affirm.
The primary issue in this appeal is whether plaintiff produced sufficient evidence of defendant’s instigation of…
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