MATOVINA v. Hult

This is an appeal from a judgment on a jury’s verdict in a suit charging false imprisonment. Issues were joined on the appellee’s amended complaint for damages against the appellants, who were police officers of the city of Gary, Indiana, and the answer of defendants thereto in denial and setting up the two year statute of limitations. The appellee filed a reply denying the allegations of appellants’ answer and alleging further in such reply that the appellee was imprisoned without warrant from December 1, 1944, to an including December 6, 1944, on which last date a warrant was obtained while…