McDermott v. W. T. Grant Co.

This is an action of tort, with one count for false arrest and another for slander. The plaintiff got a verdict of $1 on the count for slander, and the defendant’s exceptions relating to that count are waived. On the count for false arrest the plaintiff got a verdict for $1,425, and the case is here on the defendant’s exception to the denial of its motion for a directed verdict.

The following facts could have been found upon the evidence. On October 25, 1940, a woman clerk in the defendant’s store in Clinton observed two men acting suspiciously in the store, and at the same time she saw the…