Legal Opinion
Hammitt v. Straley
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided December 29, 1953No. Docket 77, Calendar 45,971PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBoyles, J.
In this ease the plaintiff sued to recover damages for illegal arrest and imprisonment.. At the close of the proofs, on trial by jury, the court granted a motion of the defendant for a directed verdict of no cause for action. Prom the judgment entered thereon, the plaintiff appeals. The principal question here is whether the arrest without a warrant was legal.
About 10:30 p.m., August 27, 1952, the defendant, chief of police of the city of Pontiac, arrested the plaintiff, without a warrant, on the oral complaint of one Mrs. Sidwell, and took him to the Oakland county jail. There the plaintiff…
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