Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Medline

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is an action at law brought in the Superior Court of Wake County, North Carolina, by the appellee Ava Medline, here referred to as the plaintiff, against the appellant Montgomery Ward & Company, Incorporated, here referred to as the defendant, to recover actual and punitive damages for false arrest and imprisonment. The cause was removed by the defendant to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina and a trial before a jury was had at Raleigh on November 9, 1938. After the taking of evidence the jury answered the issues…