Forsythe v. Ivey

The appellee, J. S. Ivey, brought suit against the appellants, W. E. Forsythe and John Busby, policemen of the city of Corinth, for an alleged false imprisonment, and recovered judgment in the sum of five hundred dollars therefor, from which judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

It appears that Ivey was arrested about eight o’clock in the evening of June 25, 1929, by the appellants. Forsythe had been a policeman of the city of Corinth for thirteen years and Busby for about eighteen years. The arrest was miade without warrant, and was made on the belief that the appellee was drunk at a public…