Commonwealth v. Dilbeck

How courts have described this case

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• defendant’s detective accused plaintiff, in front of a police officer, of stealing merchandise from store
• “In an action for false imprisonment, where a wrongful arrest has been made on information given by a defendant, there is no liability on the part of the informant for the arrest unless the officer acted under the direction of the defendant or as his agent.”
• in the absence of anything in a charge of theft from a store to indicate the property, when stolen, was under the protection of the building, placed there for safekeeping, and not under the personal care of some person in the building, the crime charged is not “larceny in a building”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).