Scott Housing Systems, Inc. v. Hickox

Because, on the record before us, it clearly appears to me that judgment in favor of the defendant was demanded as a matter of law, I must respectfully dissent to the majority’s finding no error in the trial court’s failure to grant a directed verdict in favor of the defendant.

The majority concludes that the jury “properly could have found that Scott’s officers and employees were the cause of plaintiff’s arrest without a warrant and his subsequent unlawful detention.” (Emphasis supplied.) (Majority opinion, page 25.) One of the cases upon which the majority places great reliance is Webb v.…