Tomblin v. S. S. Kresge Co.

Eberhardt, Presiding Judge.

Appellant in her complaint alleges that the appellee, a corporation, through its agent, a store security guard, unlawfully arrested and detained the plaintiff in the defendant’s department store in the presence of numerous other shoppers; that she was subjected to humiliations by the defendant’s agents while she was a customer in the store; that plaintiff was subsequently arrested by a police officer, charged with the crime of theft by taking and later acquitted of that charge.

The defendant answered by generally denying these allegations and by setting forth as a…