Brown v. PN Hirsch & Co. Stores, Inc.

TURNAGE, Presiding Judge.

Emma Brown filed suit against P.N. Hirsch & Company for false imprisonment and slander. The court directed a verdict in favor of Hirsch on the false imprisonment count, and entered judgment on the jury’s verdict in favor of Brown on the slander count for $5,000 actual damages and $100,000 punitive damages.

On this appeal Hirsch contends the court gave an erroneous verdict directing instruction. Reversed and remanded.

This suit arose from an incident which occurred while Emma and her husband, Robert, were in the Hirsch store in Boon-ville in October, 1980. According to…