Lerner Shops of Nevada, Inc. v. Marin

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, J.:

This is an appeal by Lerner Shops of Nevada, Inc., from a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff, Josephine Peggy Marin. Damages in the sum of $12,500 were awarded on Peggy’s claim for false imprisonment and assault based upon her alleged detention by the manager of Lerner’s store in Reno.

On November 23, 1964, Peggy, who was then twenty years old, went shopping with her sister, Marcellina, in Reno. In Lerner’s store Marcellina made a down payment on a coat. Then she and Peggy went to a part of the store where ski jackets were sold. Peggy was wearing a ski jacket…