Kuyrkendall v. Clark's Discount Department Store

The defendant presents twenty-seven assignments of error. However, we will refrain from discussing all of them since we think a new trial is required and many, if not all, of these various assignments of error may not occur again.

We are of the opinion that the trial judge committed prejudicial error in his charge on the issue of compensatory damages.

In the complaint the plaintiff alleged that by reason of her detention and imprisonment she was “subjected to great indignities, humiliation and disgrace” and “greatly injured in her credit and circumstances, and was caused to suffer such pain in…