Hales v. McCrory-McLellan Corporation
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff from Cowper, J., Jamie, 1963 Session, Wilson Superior Court. The plaintiff instituted this ¡civil action on August 24, 1961, to recover from the 'defendants compensatory amid punitive damages for false imprisonment and islander. At the clase of the evidence the court entered judgment of compulsory nonsuit, from which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHiggins, J.
The appeal presents .this question of law: Was the evidence offered at the trial, when considered in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, sufficient to. permit the jury to find the defendants either actually or -by procurement caused the plaintiff to be falsely imprisoned and falsely accused of shoplifting as a result of which she sustained 'damages? In addition to the general denial, .the defendants by amendment to the answer pleaded that more than six .months elapsed after the 'action accrued and before it was instituted.
The evidence disclosed that the corporate defendant operated in…
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