Oakland Cemetery Lot Owners' Ass'n v. Castleberry

W. E. Castleberry sued Oakland Cemetery Lot Owners’ Association, a corporation, George W. Jálonick, and H. C. Early, president and secretary, respectively, of the corporation, to recover actual and exemplary damages for false arrest and imprisonment.

Defendants answered by general denial and pleaded specially that plaintiff was a trespasser upon the premises of the cemetery association at the time of his alleged arrest; that O. T. Smith, who made the arrest, a special ’officer authorized by defendant to police the cemetery and protect it from trespassers, had acted in good faith.

The ease was…