In the District Court the Appellant had sued the Respondents for false imprisonment. After a full trial the District Court dismissed the suit and ordered each party to bear its costs. The Appellant was dissatisfied with the decision of that court, he appealed to the High Court of Tanzania where he was not successful. Still aggrieved, he has come to this Court on appeal. Briefly the Appellant who is a teacher by profession and also doing curving activities and neighbour to the Respondents who also were doing curving activities, was arrested by police following a report made by the 1st Respondent that the Appellant had stolen a piece of curving wood belonging to the 2nd Respondent. The Appellant was arrested, interrogated and spent a night in a police cell. On the following day he was released on police bond. Thereafter, he was sent to a Primary Court to answer a charge of theft. The Appellant denied the charge and he was released on bail. A month later, the charge was withdrawn following failure of the complainant to enter appearance in Court. It is the foregoing background which prompted him to institute the aforestated suit.