Adams v. F. W. Woolworth Co.

These two actions were tried together by the court without a jury pursuant to a stipulation providing for separate verdicts in each case. The first action is for false imprisonment; the second for slander. On the trial the title of the false arrest action and the complaint therein were amended so as to substitute defendant Lowenthal, doing business as Eureka Detective Bureau, in the place of the defendant Eureka Detective Bureau, Inc. Both causes of action arise from the same set of circumstances. Defendant F. W. Woolworth Company operates a chain of five- and ten-cent stores. Defendant…