BELL v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Docket No. B090764.

63 Cal.App.4th 919 (1998)

JAMES H. BELL, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

May 6, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Richard J. Rojo and Joel A. Davis, Deputy Attorneys General, Marsha Jones Moutrie, City Attorney, Joseph Lawrence, Assistant City Attorney, Jeanette Schachtner, Chief Deputy City Attorney, and Norman N. Hirata, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Appellants.

Jaffe, Trutanich, Scatena & Blum, Fred M. Blum, Carmen A. Trutanich and Robert L. Gaumer for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

EPSTEIN, J.

Respondent was arrested by mistake; he was not the person sought under an arrest warrant. He sued those he thought responsible for the mistaken arrest. Trial was protracted, and at its end some of the appellants moved for a directed verdict. Their motion was denied. The verdict was for appellants, but was set aside upon the granting of respondent's motion for new trial. The motion was granted on proof of juror...

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