Landers v. Kroger Co.

OPINION

PARROTT, Presiding Judge.

This malicious prosecution suit grows out of The Kroger Company’s criminally prosecuting plaintiff, Sally Landers, for fraudulently obtaining money by means of a check which was returned unpaid because of “insufficient funds.”

Kroger has appealed from the action of the circuit judge in overruling its motion for new trial and entering, in accord with a jury verdict, judgment for plaintiff in the amount of $5,000.00 compensatory damages and $2,500.00 punitive damages.

Sally Landers, a 17-year old University of Tennessee student from Chattanooga, living in a…