Fleet v. May Department Stores, Inc.

Plaintiff filed this action for damages, charging ■defendant with false imprisonment in her first canse of action, and malicious prosecution in the second. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff on both, plus punitive damages in the cause of action for malicious prosecution. The trial court entered a judgment n.o.v. on both causes of action and alternatively ordered new trials. Plaintiff appeals.

The evidence received was as follows. Plaintiff testified that she went to defendant’s store in the Lloyd Center in Portland to purchase some sunglasses. She walked to the first of two counters…