Brennan v. O'Brien

This is an action on the case for an alleged illegal arrest and imprisonment. It appears that the defendant is a member of the firm of O’Brien & Co., which carries on a grocery business in Detroit. Plaintiff was employed in defendant’s store. On November 18, 1897, *492Mr. Gibbs, the cigar man in the store, went to the staircase to get his coat. This staircase leads to the cellar, and is entirely closed, except at the entrance, and is dark, except when the electric lights are turned on. Gibbs had hung his coat there in the morning, and not finding it at noon, and presuming that one of the employés…