K-Mart No. 4195 v. Judge

KEITH, Justice.

The defendant appeals from an adverse judgment rendered in a suit for false imprisonment where the jury returned a verdict which included both actual and exemplary damages. We will designate the parties as they appeared in the trial court.

Plaintiff was accompanied to defendant’s store by Charlotte Taylor, a known shoplifter; but, when the two reached the store, according to plaintiff, she went to the rear and made a payment upon some merchandise which she had in lay-away. Taylor went to an area in the store where wigs were sold, examined several wigs, secreted one in her…