Michel v. Smith
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Charles S. Burnell, City Attorney, Jess E. Stephens, City Attorney, Wm. P. Mealey, Assistant City Attorney, and Lucius P. Green, Deputy City Attorney, for Appellants.
1Opinion of the CourtWaste, J.
The plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for alleged unlawful arrest and imprisonment by certain police officers of the city of Los Angeles. The defendants Butler, as chief of police, and Slaughter, as sergeant of police, were at no time connected with the arrest complained of, but are sued by reason of their being the superior officers of defendants Smith and Gross, who made the arrest. The ease was tried by the court sitting without a jury. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case the defendants Butler and Slaughter made a motion for a nonsuit as to them, which motion was…
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