McVay v. Carpe

This action was brought by the plaintiffs, Ronald W. McVay and Herbert Kerkman against defendants Albert Carpe and George C. Cessna, and therein plaintiffs asked for damages for false arrest and imprisonment at the hands of the defendants, alleging that they had been subjected to physical and mental discomfiture, embarrassment, humiliation, and loss of social standing, and, in the case of McVay, loss of employment, alleging that defendants had no reasonable or legal grounds for arrest and that in so doing defendants acted illegally.

The defendants, admitting the arrest, allege that in so doing…