S. H. Kress & Co. v. Roberts

Campbell, J.,

delivered the opinion of the. .court.

This was an action for false imprisonment, in which there was a judgment for the plaintiff, Mrs. Alice Martin Roberts.

The proceeding was by notice of motion, and it is alleged in the notice, which was sued out of the clerk’s office in November, 1923, that on the 18th day of December, 1922, the plaintiff was arrested in the city of Roanoke, on a charge of petit larceny, preferred by H. C. Mousel, who was the servant and agent of the defendant; that the plaintiff was taken into custody by certain police officers of the city, at the instance of…