Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. v. Waller

This is an action by appellee against appellants, Kroger Company and Orie Houpt, the latter being at the time hereinafter mentioned manager of the former’s meat market in its store at Hot Springs, Arkansas, to recover damages for false imprisonment. The complaint alleged that, on November 15, 1943, the appellants unlawfully, maliciously and wantonly caused her to be deprived of her liberty and imprisoned in the city jail at Hot Springs for about five hours, “thereby causing plaintiff to suffer considerable mental anguish and humiliation, and to suffer, considerable financial loss as a result…