Lane

Action to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of plaintiff’s arrest and false imprisonment.

The court made findings to the effect that the arrest and imprisonment were wrongful and without warrant, but further found that plaintiff had sustained no actual damage by reason thereof. Thereupon, judgment was given in his favor for nominal damage only, from which he appeals upon the judgment-roll alone.

Appellant claims the court committed prejudicial error by .finding facts not within the issues. It appears both by the answer and findings that on the morning of the day of his arrest plaintiff had been convicted upon a charge of disturbing the peace and a fine imposed therefor, upon payment of which he was released. The wrongful arrest, made upon complaint that he threatened a further disturbance by doing violence to his wife, occurred on the evening of the day upon which he was so released. The court made a finding to the effect that at the time when plaintiff was arrested upon the complaint for which he was convicted and fined he was intoxicated and had not recovered from the effects of such intoxication when released from custody on the morning of the day when…