GRISWOLD v. HOLLYWOOD TURF CLUB

Docket No. 18286.

106 Cal.App.2d 578 (1951)

235 P.2d 656

EUGENE L. GRISWOLD, Appellant, v. HOLLYWOOD TURF CLUB, etc., et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

September 19, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Haupt and George W. Lawrence for Appellant.

Freston & Files, Ralph E. Lewis and Gordon L. Files for Respondents.


SHINN, P.J.

Plaintiff was forcibly evicted from the race course of Hollywood Turf Club, arrested, charged with breach of the peace, tried and acquitted. He sued the turf club and certain others for malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, and assault and battery. Plaintiff is a plastering contractor. On a summer afternoon in 1947 he was admitted to the track as a paying customer. He entered the exclusive clubhouse premises with friends who, he testified, had bought...

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