STATE EX REL. ANDERSON v. EVATT


471 S.W.2d 949 (1971)

STATE of Tennessee ex rel. Carl ANDERSON, Appellee. v. H.Q. EVATT et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Eastern Section.

Certiorari Denied October 18, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter L. Lusk, Chattanooga, for appellants.

Marvin B. Berke, Chattanooga, for appellee.


Certiorari Denied by Supreme Court October 18, 1971.

OPINION

PARROTT, Judge.

This circuit court action for damages grows out of an officer's arresting the wrong person whose name was the same or similar as the person named in the warrant. Carl E. Anderson brought the suit against H.Q. Evatt, sheriff of Hamilton County, his bonding company, Maryland Casualty Company of Baltimore, Maryland, and Ervin Partridge, one of the sheriff's deputies making...

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