Coblyn v. Kennedy's, Inc.

This is an action of tort for false imprisonment. 1 At the close of the evidence the defendants filed a motion for directed verdicts which was denied. The jury returned verdicts for the plaintiff in the sum of $12,500. The case is here on the defendants’ exceptions to the denial of their motion and to the refusal of the trial judge to give certain requested instructions to the jury.

We state the pertinent evidence most favorable- to the plaintiff. On March 5, 1965, the plaintiff went to Kennedy’s, Inc. (Kennedy’s), a store in Boston. He was seventy years of age and about five feet four inches…