Prieto v. May Department Stores Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “There is no material distinction between reasonable grounds for detention in false imprisonment and probable cause in malicious prosecution.”
• false arrest case stating that “[w]here the facts are not in dispute the question of probable cause is one of law to be decided by the court.”
• in determining whether probable cause existed to support plaintiff’s detention, the court viewed the actions of a store detective based on what he observed rather than what may have been in the mind of plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).