Brown ex rel. Duncan v. Jones Store

SHANGLER, Judge.

Plaintiff brought her petition in two counts, for false arrest and for malicious prosecution, against the defendant The Jones Store and Charles Sartain, security officer for the defendant department store. Judgment was entered upon the jury verdict in favor of the defendants on Both counts and the plaintiff appeals.

A brief résumé of the evidence only is needed to bring into relief the allegations of error made by the plaintiff. The plaintiff was observed by the defendant security officer coming alone into the coat department of the store carrying a sack. In the presence of a…