NATIONAL FOOD STORES, INC. v. UTLEY

No. 16957.

303 F.2d 284 (1962)

NATIONAL FOOD STORES, INC., Appellant, v. William C. UTLEY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

June 7, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Mack of Clifton, Mack & Kirkpatrick, Memphis, Tenn., for appellant, and Abner McGehee, of Cockrill, Laser, & McGehee, Little Rock, Ark., on the brief.

E. L. McHaney, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before SANBORN, BLACKMUN and RIDGE, Circuit Judges.


SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment for $10,000 in favor of the plaintiff (appellee), based upon the verdict of a jury in a diversity action brought to recover damages, both compensatory and punitive, from the defendant (appellant) for false imprisonment alleged to have been brought about on August 8, 1960, in the city of North Little Rock, in willful disregard of the rights of the plaintiff, by Raymond Cash, the manager of the defendant's store...

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