Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Keulemans

This is an appeal by Montgomery Ward & Company, Inc. (Montgomery Ward), Carleton R. Johnson (Johnson) and Allen Gilgenberg (Gilgenberg) from judgments entered in the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s County in favor of Alphonse Keulemans (Keulemans) after jury verdicts 1 for $1,350.00 and $25,000.00.

Keulemans claimed compensatory and punitive damages from Montgomery Ward, Johnson, Gilgenberg and another 2 in a four count amended declaration alleging (1) false arrest, (2) false imprisonment, (3) malicious prosecution, and (4) defamation. 3

Before reaching the substantive issues raised after the…