Martin v. Santora

RODGERS, Justice:

Mrs. Patricia Santora, appellee, filed a suit in the Second Judicial District of Jones County, Mississippi, against appellant, Frank Martin, Jr., who was doing a mercantile business in Laurel, Mississippi, under the trade name of Gibson’s Discount Center. The appellee based her suit upon false imprisonment and slander. The trial court dismissed the suit for slander and submitted the claim of false imprisonment to the jury. It returned a verdict in favor of appellee in the sum of $10,000, and the court entered a judgment to accord therewith. The defendant, Frank Martin, Jr.,…