Carroll v. Parry
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing- on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on verdict, in an action for false imprisonment. Tbe Court in tbe opinion stated tbe facts as follows: Appeals from a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, Jackson G. Parry, an infant, by bis next friend, Richard L. Parry, appellee here, in tbe sum of $3,000. A former judgment was reversed. Gwrroll v. Parry, 43 App. D. C. 363, Ann.
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Hearing- on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on verdict, in an action for false imprisonment. Tbe Court in tbe opinion stated tbe facts as follows: Appeals from a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, Jackson G. Parry, an infant, by bis next friend, Richard L. Parry, appellee here, in tbe sum of $3,000. A former judgment was reversed. Gwrroll v. Parry, 43 App. D. C. 363, Ann. Oas. 1916E, 971. Tbe evidence for tbe plaintiff tended to show that be and á colored man by tbe name of Tyler were employed by tbe defendants, Harry R. Carroll and Louis D.…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justiee Bobb
delivered the opinion of the Court:
False imprisonment consists in the unlawful restraint of one person by another (McCarthy v. De Armit, 99 Pa. 63; Miller v. Ashcraft, 98 Ky. 314, 32 S. W. 1085; State v. Lunsford, 81 N. C. 528; Snead v. Bonnoil, 166 N. Y. 325, 59 N. E. 899), and malicious prosecution in an unsuccessful prosecution begun in malice and without probable cause. Auerbach v. Freeman, 43 App. D. C. 176. In jurisdictions where the strict separation of the forms of action has been abolished, the two may be joined in the same suit. 11 R. C. L. 791; Page v. Citizens’…
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