Goodacre v. Shulmier

ROBB, Associate Justice. .

Appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff in the Supreme Court of the District in an action for false arrest and imprisonment.

More than one year after the date of the false arrest and imprisonment charged in the single count of the original declaration, plaintiff, with leave of court, filed an amended declaration in two counts; the first count being substantially like the count in the original declaration; the second count being like the first, except that it alleged that defendant acted maliciously.

At the close of all the evidence, defendant moved the court to direct…