Tsudek v. Target Stores, Inc.

OPINION

WOZNIAK, Judge.

Abram Tsudek appeals from the trial court’s denial of a motion for a new trial following a jury verdict finding he was not slandered by an employee of respondent Dayton-Hudson, Inc., dba Target Stores. He claims the evidence did not support the verdict, the answers to the special verdict form were inconsistent, and that a new trial was justified to allow an instruction to the jury on the elements of intentional infliction of emotional distress. We affirm.

FACTS

In November 1983, at one of respondent’s Target Stores, Kevin Paulus stopped a man suspected of stealing a…