Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Hernandez

OPINION

UTTER, Justice.

Appellee Olivia Hernandez filed suit against appellant Montgomery Ward & Co. alleging that she had been falsely imprisoned by appellant’s employees and sought actual and exemplary damages. Appellant alleged that its employees had reasonable grounds to hold appellee, and therefore, the detention of appellee was legal and lawful. The jury’s verdict was favorable to appel-lee.

The record indicates that appellee was shopping in appellant’s store in Pharr, Texas, on August 26, 1978, at which time she made a credit card purchase. Through some mixup on the part of appellant,…