Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Lewis

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment for the plaintiff in an action for false arrest and imprisonment. The sole question is whether the District Court erred in refusing to direct a verdict for the defendant. Defendant’s contention is that there was no sufficient evidence to support a finding that it procured plaintiff’s arrest.

A watch and chain were stolen from one of defendant’s buildings, and an overcoat from another. Plaintiff, a former janitor in one of the buildings, was thought to have been recently about the premises. He was arrested without a…