# Miller v. Glass

> California Supreme Court · April 22, 1955 · 44 Cal. 2d 359

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9576334

## Case

- **Full name:** FRED H. MILLER, Appellant, v. DONALD GLASS Et Al., Respondents
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** April 22, 1955
- **Citations:** 44 Cal. 2d 359; 282 P.2d 501; 1955 Cal. LEXIS 235
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Carter
- **Judges:** Spence, Carter
- **Cited by:** 20 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that lack of probable cause has “no bearing . . . on charges of false arrest and imprisonment, except . . . where the offense is apparently being committed in the presence of the arresting officer, he may invoke by way of defense the doctrine of probable cause to ju…

## Opinion text

CARTER, J.
I concur in the reversal of the judgment but disagree with the holding in the majority opinion that White v. Towers, 37 Cal.2d 727 [ 235 P.2d 209 , 28 A.L.R.2d 636 ], and Coverstone v. Davies, 38 Cal.2d 315 [ 239 P.2d 876 ], were correctly decided. I am firmly of the opinion that these cases were erroneously decided as clearly pointed out in my dissenting opinions therein.

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