Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Keulemans

After the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s County had entered judgments for $1,350.00 compensatory damages for false arrest and for $25,000.00 punitive damages for malicious prosecution on jury verdicts in favor of Alphonse Keulemans against Carleton R. Johnson, Allen Gilgenberg and Montgomery Ward & Company, Inc. (Ward), sometimes hereafter referred to collectively as “the defendants,” the defendants appealed to the Court of Special Appeals, which affirmed the judgments in Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Keulemans, 23 Md. App. 81, 326 A. 2d 45 (1974). We granted certiorari in order that we might review…