Mildon v. Bybee

CROCKETT, Justice.

Plaintiff, Matt T. Mildon, sued to recover damages for false imprisonment by the defendant, Donald E. Bybee, a deputy sheriff of Weber County, who detained the plaintiff in connection with determining whether he was the person named in a warrant of arrest the officer was attempting to serve. After presentation of all of the evidence the court directed a verdict of “no cause of action.”

The issue of concern here is whether, reviewing the evidence and all inferences fairly to be drawn therefrom in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, a prima facie case of false…