Kresge v. Thomas

Banke, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff in an action for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution, based upon her detention by the defendants for shoplifting. The defendants contend that certain answers to interrogatories were erroneously admitted in evidence. These answers were provided by co-defendant Childers, a security guard at the store where the detention had occurred. This witness testified in a recorder’s court hearing that she had detained the plaintiff with the assistance of another store employee named Mr. Scruggs. However, in her answers to the…