Smith v. S. H. Kress & Co.

This is an action to recover damages for false imprisonment, and for assault and battery. Many questions raised on this appeál relate to rulings of the trial court upon evidence. A review of these rulings makes proper a brief statement of the tendencies of the evidence.

The evidence for plaintiff tended to show that while at her work as an employee of defendant two agents of Bodeker Detective Agency appeared and directed her to go with them to the offices of the detective agency; that she was locked up in these offices, confronted with a charge of having taken the money of her employer, and…