Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Wickline

Melvin Wickline, hereinafter called the plaintiff, instituted an action against the defendant, Montgomery Ward & Company, a corporation, by notice of motion for judgment in the court below, seeking damages for false imprisonment. The notice alleged that on the evening of November 30, 1946, while the plaintiff and a friend, James C. Taylor, were leaving the defendant’s store, where they had been shopping, they were, “at the suggestion of the defendant’s servants, agents and employees,” “without any sufficient legal excuse,” “placed in restraint” and searched by a police officer and charged…