Hoock v. SS Kresge Co.

230 S.W.2d 758 (1950)

HOOCK

v.

S. S. KRESGE CO. et al.

No. 41748.

Supreme Court of Missouri, en Banc.

June 13, 1950.

Wayne Ely, Ernest D. Grinnell, Jr., St. Louis, attorneys for defendants-appellants.

John W. Joynt, St. Louis, attorney for respondent.

CONKLING Judge.

Theodore P. Hoock, plaintiff-respondent, recovered a judgment for $7500 damages for alleged false arrest against S. S. Kresge Company and R. D. Cox, defendants-appellants. From that judgment an appeal was taken to the St. Louis Court of Appeals. That court, 222 S.W.2d 568, reversed the trial court's judgment, and ruled that it was neither…