Legal Opinion

Sutherland v. Kroger Company

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided October 27, 1959No. 11049PublishedCited by 42 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Berry, Judge :

This action was instituted by the plaintiff, Alta Mae Sutherland, against The Kroger Company, a corporation, B. E. Honaker and Dixie Lee High, defendants, in the Circuit Court of McDowell County, West Virginia. The declaration is rather lengthy, but it charges the defendants with illegally searching the plaintiff or her property on November 14, 1957, and with slander in connection therewith. It also alleges that the plaintiff was searched on two other occasions by the defendants without cause or justification and merely sets out the dates of the other alleged searches. The…

2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Burdeau v. McDowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1921
  2. People v. TarantinoCalifornia Supreme Court · 1955
  3. Federal Land Bank v. BirchfieldSupreme Court of Virginia · 1939
  4. Walker v. PennerOregon Supreme Court · 1951
  5. Imboden v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1907

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3Cited by42 opinions

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  4. Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
  5. Norman Birnbaum, B. Leonard Avery and Mary Rule MacMillen Plaintiffs v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978

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