Wade v. Campbell and Coates Hotel Co.

Plaintiff, alleging false imprisonment as the basis of her cause of action, brought this suit for $5000 damages against the- Coates Hotel Company, a corporation operating in Kansas City the hotel known as the Coates House, and also against Sam B. Campbell its Manager. At the close of the evidence each defendant separately demurred, but both were overruled and the case was sent to the jury.

It returned a verdict in favor of the defendant, Sam B. Campbell, but found for plaintiff as against the Coates Hotel Company and assessed damages against said defendant at the sum of $500. The hotel company…