Tocker v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company

MYERS, Associate Judge.

A customer- appeals from a directed verdict for appellee at the conclusion of her case in which she sought to recover damages, both compensatory and punitive, for .alleged slander, false arrest and wrongful ■detention.

The errors charged were rulings by the -trial judge (1) that the words spoken by the store employee were not slanderous per .se, viz., that they did not charge her with a crime involving moral turpitude and did not accuse her of an act punishable by law, and (2) that stopping her on the public street did not constitute false imprisonment. 1

The record…