Burkett v. Lanata

This is an action for a malicious arrest and imprisonment. The plaintiff claimed $10,000 damages, and the defendant is appellant from a judgment of $1000, rendered on a verdict of the jury who were impanneled to try the cause.

The principal facts of the case, as disclosed by the evidence, are: that the plaintiff is a merchant in the city of New Orleans, carrying on the business of a family grocery; that he has a wife and two or four children ; that he was in the habit of supplying his store by purchases on short credits made from the commercial house of Lanata Brothers; that being indebted to…