Rowe v. CSX Transportation, Inc.

I respectfully dissent from the affirmance of summary judgment. My review of the evidence persuades me that a jury should decide whether defendant Robert L. Johnson, Jr., the private detective for defendant CSX Transportation, Inc. (“CSXT”), failed to take reasonable steps to verify the information leading him to swear out arrest warrants alleging plaintiffs Freddy Rowe and Cleo Brown were guilty of theft by receiving the stolen property of CSXT.

Plaintiffs brought this tort action against defendant CSXT and defendant Robert L. Johnson, Jr., “in his individual and official capacity, [as] a…