Newport v. Montgomery Ward & Co.

Plaintiff sued appellants, Montgomery Ward & Company, Harold Hart and Mae Cooper, to recover damages for false arrest. There was a'verdict and judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $12,000 actual and. $12,000 punitive damages. An appeal was duly taken.

Mae Cooper was a house detective for defendant, .Montgomery Ward & Company, and Plart was in charge of the house police for that company. Plaintiff lived in Kansas City, Kansas. On June 27, 1936, shortly after two o’clock, plaintiff in company with two of. her friends, Ruth Maxon and Flo Taylor, went to Kansas City, Missouri, for the purpose of…