LeRoy v. Witt

Defendant appeals from an adverse judgment in a false imprisonment action in which the plaintiff was awarded $65 special damages, $750 general damages and costs.

*630The assignments of error relate to the defendant’s contention that the evidence does' not support the judgment. Defendant was a traffic patrolman for the city of Portland on August 24, 1970 at about 3:30 p.m. when he issued traffic-citations to the plaintiff for alleged disobedience of a traffic sign and failure to- display vehicle registration. He testified that plain--’ tiff crumpled up the first citation alleging disobedience of…