Platt v. Greenwood

This is an action for damages for unlawful arrest and false imprisonment. A. Hartley Greenwood, sheriff of Apache county, on September 23, 1935, between 6:30 and 7:00 o ’clock in the evening, without a warrant, arrested the plaintiff, Earl Platt, on the streets of St. Johns aiid took him to and locked him in the county jail, where he remained for some three hours, when he was released by the sheriff without any charge being laid against him. The United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company is the sheriff’s official bondsman.

The defense is that plaintiff was, at the time he arrested him,…