Veatch v. City of Waverly
Annotate this CaseAfter Plaintiff visited her mother at a residential home staff members reported that Plaintiff may have mistreated her mother. The officer who investigated the allegations arrested Plaintiff and charged her with simple misdemeanor assault. A jury acquitted Plaintiff of the charge. Plaintiff then filed this civil action against the arresting officer and the city that employed him, alleging negligence, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants. The court of appeals reversed as to the false imprisonment claim. The Supreme Court vacated the decision of the court of appeals, concluding that reasonable ground existed to arrest Plaintiff for the indictable offense of dependent adult abuse, and therefore, Plaintiff’s false imprisonment claim failed as a matter of law.
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