Guion v. Associated Dry Goods Corp.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, entered March 2, 1976, after a jury verdict, awarding to plaintiff against all defendants $10,000 compensatory damages for false arrest, and punitive damages of $5,000 and $25,000 against defendants David Gelles and Associated Dry Goods Corp., respectively, unanimously modified, on the law, the punitive damages stricken, and, as so modified, affirmed, without costs and without disbursements. Plaintiff was acquitted, after a jury trial, of a petit larceny charge following her arrest by two security officers of Lord & Taylor, a well-known New York…