Land v. Hill

SMITH, Judge.

Plaintiff, Mary Land, appeals from the trial court’s dismissal of her claims for false arrest and malicious prosecution, as well as its finding of non-liability on the issue of outrageous conduct. We affirm.

The particulars of the incident giving rise to this litigation were hotly disputed in a trial to the court; the court found the facts to be essentially as follows.

Plaintiff was standing in a Safeway checkout line, paying for her groceries. Defendant, James Hill, the Safeway store manager, was bent over a cigarette machine a few feet away, his back to the checkout line.…