Thomas v. Colonial Stores, Inc.

OXNER, Justice.

This action, denominated by plaintiff as one for false imprisonment, comes before us on the pleadings. Defendant made a motion to strike a portion of plaintiff’s complaint and plaintiff made a motion to strike the second defense of defendant’s answer. The Court below granted defendant’s motion and refused that of plaintiff. From this order plaintiff has appealed.

Briefly stated, plaintiff alleged in her complaint that upon leaving one of defendant’s self-service grocery stores in the City of Spartanburg, where she had gone as a patron, she was stopped on the sidewalk by the…