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GREAT ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA COMPANY v. LETHCOE

No. 8074.

279 F.2d 948 (1960)

GREAT ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA COMPANY, a corporation, Appellant, v. Sherman LETHCOE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 29, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. R. Coulling, Jr., Bluefield, W. Va., for appellant.

Billy E. Burkett, Princeton, W. Va. (Walter G. Burton, Princeton, W. Va., on the brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge, and BARKSDALE and DALTON, District Judges.

DALTON, District Judge.

In this case the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company appeals from a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia rendered on a jury verdict which awarded Sherman Lethcoe $1,000 compensatory damages and $2,000 punitive damages on account of two incidents of alleged false arrest and false imprisonment and one incident of alleged slander.

The first wrong complained of occurred at the Bluefield, West Virginia...

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