Browning v. Pay-Less Self Service Shoes, Inc.

HUGHES, Justice.

Reverend L. C. Browning, Rosie Young, a feme sole and J. B. Wilson as next friend of Martha Wilson, a minor, sued Pay-Less Self Service Shoes, Inc. for damages, actual and exemplary, for their alleged wrongful detention and treatment by Pay-Less and its agents in Temple, Texas, on or about March 16, 1960.

Three separate suits were originally filed by appellants against individual defendants. These suits were superseded by amended petitions filed in these suits on March 12, 1962, in which the only defendant named was Pay-Less. These three causes were consolidated and a joint…