Lukas v. J. C. Penney Co.

This is an appeal by the defendant, J. C. Penney Company, from a judgment which the circuit court entered in favor of the plaintiff in an action which averred that the defendant wrongfully detained the plaintiff in the defendant’s custody upon a false claim that she had shoplifted a dress from one of the defendant’s Portland stores. The answer, in addition to denials, pled that if the defendant detained the plaintiff, the detention was made in good faith and with reasonable cause for believing that plaintiff had committed the crime of shoplifting. It alleged that all of *347the defendant’s…