Lois White v. Scrivner Corporation

CHARLES CLARK, Circuit Judge:

While Lois White, her daughter Sandra White, and her sister Gloria Pratt were shopping in a Scrivner Corporation food store one night, the assistant manager of the store accused Lois White of stealing a roast from the store’s meat counter and requested that she and her two relatives accompany him to a room in the back of the market. The women were asked for permission to search their purses and, upon examining the contents, the assistant manager found a pistol in Lois White’s handbag. He then told the women to stand against a wall in the room while he called the…