Codner v. Skaggs Drug Centers, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Prager, J.:

This is an action to recover damages for false imprisonment and slander. The plaintiff, Carolyn A. Codner, was detained for forty minutes in a Hutchinson store of Skaggs Drug Centers, Inc., on a suspicion of shoplifting. The case was tried to a jury which brought in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $5,000 actual damages and $0 punitive damages. The defendants in the case were Skaggs Drug Centers, Inc., and two of its employees, Gordon O. Toone and Erma L. Gilley. The district court entered judgment on the verdict.…