Clark v. Alloway

BUDGE, Justice.

Appellant’s complaint, filed in the District Court for Ada County, set forth two causes of action. The first seeks damages in the sum of $15,000 actual and $5,000 punitive damages, alleged to have been sustained by reason of the acts of respondents in maliciously and unlawfully procuring her arrest, September 3, 1944, on a charge of vagrancy. The second cause of action seeks to recover damages in the same amounts from respondents for having falsely imprisoned appellant after her arrest on said charge.

Respondents, in their answer, deny all the allegations of the complaint,…