Legal Opinion
Yeatts v. Minton
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided November 30, 1970No. Record 7206PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGordon, J.
Plaintiff Richard A. Minton brought this action against defendant Cecil G. Yeatts for false imprisonment. Yeatts appeals from an adverse judgment for $700, entered on a jury verdict. The question is whether the evidence supports the verdict.
On December 2, 1967, Yeatts, a resident of Chesterfield County who is regularly employed in Richmond, was on duty as a special game warden in Charles City County. The regular game warden, who was ill, had instructed Yeatts to watch for persons “jacklighting deer” 1 on a farm known as the “academy” because the farm manager had asked the warden to keep the…
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