RUPPEL v. MILLER

No. 74-1323.

324 So.2d 162 (1975)

David F. RUPPEL, Appellant, v. Kenneth MILLER and John Lohde, As Detectives in the St. Petersburg Department of Public Safety, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied January 14, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Henninger of the Law Offices of Robert W. Pope, St. Petersburg, for appellant.

Michael S. Davis, Asst. City Atty., St. Petersburg, for appellees.


PER CURIAM.

In this combined false arrest and malicious prosecution action, plaintiff-appellant appeals from an adverse summary judgment. We reverse.

Appellant was arrested on May 18, 1973, for allegedly uttering a forged check to a certain bank in the appellee City of St. Petersburg. Subsequent criminal proceedings were dropped upon notification that appellant was not the man being sought; that another man was guilty of the offense with which appellant was...

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