MacDonald v. Schenkel

Appellant sued appellee, his brother-in-law, for false imprisonment. His complaint alleged that in July, 1939, he got into appellee’s car at the latter’s invitation to be taken to his home in Washington City, but instead was taken to the station house, turned over to the police, and without any charge being placed against him was confined in a cell from Saturday night until Monday. Appellee answered that on the day in question he was called by a police officer of the District of Columbia Women’s Bureau and advised that appellant’s wife (his sister) and two children had been evicted from their…