Wright Ex Rel. Wright v. Hoover

vTMs is a suit for false imprisonment. At the close of plaintiff’s evidence the court marked “given” defendants’ instruction in the nature of a demurrer to the evidence, whereupon plaintiff took an involuntary non-suit with leave. Plaintiff filed a motion to set aside the non-suit which was overruled, and she has appealed.

The facts show that plaintiff was a negro girl employed as a servant in the home of the defendants, her duties being general housework, to help with the cooking and to take care of the baby. In the summer of 1919 defendants ’ baby was teething and to pacify him defendant…