Snider v. Wimberly

[240] Action for false imprisonment based on plaintiff’s arrest .by the Kansas City police. Verdict for plaintiff for $10,000.00 damages. ($5000.00 actual and $5000.00 punitive.) Defendant has appealed.

Defendant' contends that- there was no substantial competent evidence to show that he cau’sed plaintiff’s arrest and that a verdict should have been directed for him. The occasion for the arrest was that defendant had stopped at his place of business (Superior Distributing Company, selling and servicing refrigerators and radios) about 11:30 p. m. on January 23, 1945, and discovered a man in…