Cole v. Johnson

Plaintiffs appeal from (1) a judgment of nonsuit which was rendered in favor of defendants Johnson and Schmitt, and (2) a directed verdict in favor of the other defendants, in a case of false arrest. Johnson had identified Cole, one of the plaintiffs, as a robber, Schmitt was Johnson’s partner in business, and the other defendants are police officers who had participated in an arrest of plaintiffs following identification.

On March 12, 1959, defendant Johnson was working as a bartender at the B & B Gardens in Richmond, at about 1 o’clock in the morning. A young man who, in response to…