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GREENWELL v. CANYON LINCOLN MERCURY, INC.

No. 15083.

575 P.2d 688 (1978)

Edmund Ellsworth GREENWELL, an incompetent person, by his general guardian, Edmund J. Greenwell, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CANYON LINCOLN MERCURY, INC., a corporation, dba Ray Safford Lincoln Mercury, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of Utah.

February 3, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don J. Hanson and A. Alma Nelson of Hanson & Garrett, Salt Lake City, for defendant and appellant.

Richard W. Brann, Ogden, for plaintiff and respondent.

WILKINS, Justice:

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding plaintiff $12,187.96 special damages, and $50,000 general damages in an action for false imprisonment.

All statutory references herein are to Utah Code Annotated, 1953, as amended, unless otherwise indicated.

Plaintiff alleges that defendant caused him to be falsely imprisoned on December 18, 1975. About a week prior to...

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