S. H. Kress & Co. v. De Mont

This appeal proceeds from a judgment entered upon a jury’s award of $1,000 to the appellee as damages for the false imprisonment of herself at appellant’s hands.

The _ substance of the material facts, as given by the appellee herself, Mrs. De Mont, and evidently found by the jury to be true, were these:

She bought, paid for, and took unwrapped in her shopping basket from appellant’s store three small articles of insignificant value. After she had gotten out onto the sidewalk of the public street running past the store, Mrs. Ramsey, an employe of appellant whose duties were to watch for and keep…