Steinbaugh v. Payless Drug Store, Inc.

COMPTON, Justice.

This is an action for false ’imprisonment and defamation by slander growing out of the detention and search of the plaintiffs on the premises of the defendant, Payless Drug Store, Inc., by police officers acting upon information furnished by the store’s assistant manager, also a defendant, that the plaintiffs were suspected of shoplifting. The 'cause was tried to the court which entered judgment in favor of the plaintiffs and awarded them damages of $1,000.00 each'. From this judgment, the defendants appeal.

The appellants’ contentions .are-(a) that the trial court erred in…