Nelson v. R. H. MacY & Co.

HOWARD, Presiding Judge.

This is a suit for false arrest wherein a jury trial resulted in a judgment for respondent for $2,500.00 actual damages and $2,500.00 punitive damages. Appellant has duly appealed to this court. We shall refer to the parties as they appeared below.

Plaintiff, Lester Guy Nelson, was thirty-two years old and employed by Mutual Educators, Inc., selling encyclopedias and other educational aids door to door. On Friday, July 15, 1966, shortly before 5:00 p. m. and just prior to meeting the group of salesmen whom he supervised, plaintiff entered the defendant’s (Macy’s)…