Bennett v. Norban

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Bok,

Plaintiff complains in four counts: assault and battery, slander, invasion of privacy, and false imprisonment. Preliminary objections were sustained to slander and invasion of privacy, and plaintiff has appealed.

On Saturday afternoon, December 28, 1957, appellant entered defendant’s store in Erie. It was a self-service store and at the time was busy. Appellant selected a purse but couldn’t find a cashier to wrap it for her. She moved on to look at some skirts an aisle or two away, carrying the purse, but being in a hurry to return to the hospital where her child was…