DIXON v. SHINER

Docket No. 1,385.

12 Mich. App. 573 (1968)

163 N.W.2d 481

DIXON v. SHINER.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided July 31, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Heading, Williams, Fonville & Floyd, for plaintiff.

Robert Reese, Corporation Counsel for the City of Detroit, and William P. Doran and John E. Cross, Assistants Corporation Counsel, for defendants.


LESINSKI, C.J.

This suit for false imprisonment or illegal arrest was brought by plaintiff, Sandy Dixon, Jr., against defendants, Ronald Shiner and William Schmidt, who are police officers for the city of Detroit. From a judgment granted in favor of plaintiff by the Wayne county circuit court sitting without a jury, defendants appeal.

The gravamen of the complaint set forth that on June 3, 1962, defendants, while on duty as police officers for the city of...

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