Deadman v. Valley Nat. Bank of Arizona

OPINION

BROOKS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a directed verdict, holding defendant, Valley National Bank, liable to plaintiff, David G. Deadman, for false arrest. The bank also appeals from the denial of its motion for a new trial or for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, as to the amount of damages awarded by the jury.

Phoenix police officers arrested Dead-man in the lobby of the bank’s Paradise Valley Mall branch after a bank employee called police to report her belief that Dead-man was attempting to use a fraudulent credit card. The officers detained Dead-man for…