Tota v. Alexander's

This action for false arrest and imprisonment and for assault was tried before the court without a jury. Plaintiff, while shopping at Alexander’s (a mercantile establishment) on March 17,1965 was accused of stealing a green scarf and was detained, arrested, and was subsequently acquitted.

Plaintiff claims that she purchased this green scarf at Alexander’s a week before. When she entered the store on March 17, 1965, she asserted that she had three scarfs on her person — a silk pink scarf around her head, a silk green scarf around her neck, and a white woolen scarf around her waist to keep her…