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HICKS v. MATTHEWS

No. A-4394.

266 S.W.2d 846 (1954)

HICKS v. MATTHEWS.

Supreme Court of Texas.

March 10, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Collins, Garrison, Renfrow & Zeleskey, Lufkin, V. A. Collins and R. H. Jones, Livingston, for petitioner.

Campbell & Foreman and Ross Hightower, Livingston, Smith & Lehmann, J. Edwin Smith, Houston, for respondent.

HICKMAN, Chief Justice.

Respondent, Kenneth C. Matthews, brought this suit against petitioner, D. W. Hicks, an officer of the State Highway Patrol, for actual and exemplary damages for an alleged illegal arrest and false imprisonment and for the alleged failure of the petitioner to accord him his legal right to be taken before a magistrate immediately after his arrest. In the trial court, judgment was rendered against petitioner for $10,000 as actual damages and ...

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