Black v. Kroger Co.

EVANS, Judge.

This is a suit for damages for false imprisonment.

Cathy E. Black sued her former employer, Kroger Co., alleging that she had been illegally detained by the company’s agents who had accused her of theft by failing to ring up purchases of merchandise while em ployed as a checker at one of its grocery stores. The jury found that Kroger through its agents, servants or employees had caused Cathy Black to be falsely imprisoned; that prior to the date in question, Cathy Black had failed to ring up purchases of merchandise and that Kroger had a reasonable belief that she had failed to…