Overall v. State Ex Rel. Department of Public Safety

OPINION

GOODMAN, Presiding Judge.

TMs is an appeal from the Journal Entry of Judgment filed February 28, 1994, entering judgment on a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiffs on their claim seeMng damages for the tort of false arrest by State employees. The State contends it is immune from liability pursuant to the Governmental Tort Claims Act, 51 O.S.1991 and Supp.1994 §§ 151 through 172 (GTCA), and therefore its earlier request for summary judgment was improperly denied by the trial court, and the subsequent adverse jury verdict was contrary to the law and the evidence.

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