Garvis v. K Mart Discount Store

TIMOTHY D. O’LEARY, Special Judge.

This is an action for false imprisonment. John Garvis obtained a verdict and judgment for $41.21 actual and $12,500 punitive damages against K Mart Discount Store, a Division of S. S. Kresge Company, a corporation (hereinafter referred to as Kresge).

On this appeal Kresge has charged the trial court with error in failing to direct a verdict for defendant at the close of plaintiff’s case, in the admission of certain evidence, in the giving of four instructions on behalf of plaintiff, in the refusal of an instruction offered by defendant, and in not setting…