Staples v. Schmid
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Dependants’ petition for a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtDouglas, J.
The jury have substantially found in this case that the defendants’ salesman erroneously suspecting the plaintiff of having stolen a package of spoons from the store which was in his charge, detained her, sent for a police officer, and caused her to be sent to the police station and there searched, and they assessed the damages to the plaintiff in the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars.
The defendants bring their ¡petition for a new trial alleging that the verdict is against the evidence, that if the facts were as found the defendants are not liable and that the damages are excessive.
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