Helming v. Adams

This is an appeal from a judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff-respondent awarding her actual damages of $213.00 and punitive damages of $2,500.00, in an action for false imprisonment against defendant-appellant. The parties will hereinafter be designated, respectively, plaintiff and defendant.

Defendant vies on appeal that the judgment should be reversed and the case remanded for a new trial for five reasons:

I. The trial court erred in refusing to give either Instruction D-2 or D-3, requested by defendant, thus depriving defendant of the “defense of probable cause…