Peters v. Fogarty

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

An action of tort for false imprisonment, brought in this court by John B. Peters against The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and John D. *387Fogarty, was tried in the Ocean Circuit, and there, the innocence of the corporate defendant being conceded, the evidence was submitted to the jury on the issue between the plaintiff and Fogarty.- The jury returned a verdict which was understood by the presiding justice to be in favor of Fogarty, and was so entered, and subsequently he signed a postea to that effect. Within an hour after…