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SAFEWAY STORES v. GIBSON

No. 1668.

118 A.2d 386 (1955)

SAFEWAY STORES, Incorporated, a corporation, Appellant, v. Joseph M. GIBSON, III, by his mother and next friend Elsie M. Gibson, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided November 17, 1955.

Rehearing Denied December 9, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur B. Hanson, Washington, D. C., with whom Emmett E. Tucker, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Douglas A. Clark, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.

QUINN, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment for assault and battery and false imprisonment. Joseph Gibson, plaintiff below, alleged in his complaint that while in one of the stores of defendant Safeway, he was assaulted by one of its agents. He claimed $100 compensatory and $2,900 punitive damages. Based on a jury verdict, judgment was entered against defendant for $30 compensatory and $500 punitive damages.

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