McAleer v. Good
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 94, Oct. T., 1906, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., March T., 1903, No. 71, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Harry McAleer, by his mother and next friend, Elizabeth McAleer, v. Albert R. Good, Frederick Lamp and John, alias Brocky, Moore. Trespass for unlawful arrest and false imprisonment. Before Brown, J. At the trial it appeared that Frederick Lamp and John Moore were police officers of the city ■ of McKeesport.
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Appeal, No. 94, Oct. T., 1906, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., March T., 1903, No. 71, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Harry McAleer, by his mother and next friend, Elizabeth McAleer, v. Albert R. Good, Frederick Lamp and John, alias Brocky, Moore. Trespass for unlawful arrest and false imprisonment. Before Brown, J. At the trial it appeared that Frederick Lamp and John Moore were police officers of the city ■ of McKeesport. On October 9, 1902, they went to the house where the plaintiff, a boy of nineteen years of age, resided, and in some way induced him to go…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Elkin,
This is an action for unlawful arrest and false imprisonment. The learned trial judge, after hearing the plaintiff’s evidence, directed a compulsory nonsuit to be entered with leave to move the court in banc to take it off. A motion'to take it off was accordingly made and refused. The ruling is based on the ground that the testimony produced by the plaintiff failed to establish a joint act by the three defendants and did not show that Lamp and Moore had anything to do with the arrest and imprisonment of McAleer. We do not so read the testimony. This being a…
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