Westbrook v. Hutchison

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Baker.

This is an action in which the appellant, a minor about 12 years of age, sought damages from the respondents, actual and punitive, for false imprisonment.

Paragraphs two and three of the complaint are as follows:

“2. That on the 4th day of July, 1937, at Rock Hill, County of York, State of South Carolina, the Defendants herein maliciously and with intent to injure the Plaintiff, and to extort from him a confession as to the theft of a sum of money amounting to about Twenty-One and 25/100 ($21-.2-5) Dollars, the property of the…