Peak Ex Rel. Peak v. W. T. Grant Co.

HUNTER, Judge.

This is an action for false arrest and imprisonment. Pamela Sue Peak by her father and next friend, Francis Wilber Peak, obtained a verdict and judgment for $2,500 actual damages and $4,000 punitive damages against defendant-appellant W. T. Grant Company, a corporation.

On this appeal the W. T. Grant Company has charged the trial court with having erred in failing to direct a verdict for defendant, in admitting into evidence plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 3, in giving plaintiff’s Instruction No. 3, and in not setting aside the verdict on the ground it is excessive. We will proceed to…