Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Cliser

This appeal is from separate judgments, entered below against appellant in one case, in the total sum of $15,000, on verdicts returned by a jury for damages arising from claims of false arrest, assault and battery, and slander. For each of the foregoing wrongs, appellee was awarded $500.00 in compensatory damages and $4,500 in punitive damages.

This embroilment originated on the evening of September 2, 1970, when appellee, then 23 years of age and employed in the plumbing trade, entered appellant’s store in the Wheaton Plaza Shopping Center located in Montgomery County for the purpose of…