Clark's Brooklyn Park, Inc. v. Hranicka & Kopasek

This is an appeal from judgments of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County in two consolidated actions of two counts each for slander and false imprisonment. The jury rendered verdicts of $10,000 in each case in favor of plaintiffs, which were reduced by remittitur to $7,500.

On the afternoon of September 19, 1964, plaintiff Joan Kopasek went shopping in Clark’s Brooklyn Park Department Store, owned by defendant, Clark’s Brooklyn Park, Inc. Upon arrival she telephoned plaintiff Joyce Hranicka (at that time Joyce Alexandrowicz) and arranged to meet her at the store’s snack bar. Joyce left…