King v. Wm. J. Burns International Detective Agency, Inc.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; E. K. Skinner, Judge. Action by Louis Carl King against the Wm. J. Burns International Detective Agency, Inc., to which plaintiff attempted to make others defendants by supplemental petition. Prom a judgment sustaining exceptions and dismissing the suit as to such additional defendants, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDawkins, J.
This is an action ex delicto for the alleged malicious arrest and imprisonment of plaintiff. The suit was filed originally against the Wm. J. Burns International Detective Agency alone, January 30, 1920. Defendant answered, denying liability, and averring that its operative had acted merely in aid of the constituted authorities of the state, and at the instance of J. E. McClanahan, sheriff of Caldwell parish, who had requested that plaintiff be arrested and held as the person who had passed a forged check upon the Bank of Grayson, La., also domiciled in the parish of Caldwell.
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