Hanneman v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.

Plaintiff brought an action for false arrest and malicious prosecution against the defendant. He obtained a verdict and judgment for $4,500 and the defendant appeals.

The record discloses that in September, 1925, the defendant had in its employ at Enderlin, North Dakota, a man named Walter B. Hanneman, and at that place on September 24,1925, it issued to him its time certificate, which was in the nature of a check for 43 cents, apparently being in payment for some services he had rendered defendant. Afterwards Walter B. Hanne-man presented that check for payment at the defendant’s Chicago…