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JEFFCOAT v. K-MART DISCOUNT STORES

No. 15160.

439 F.2d 713 (1971)

Jessie Mae JEFFCOAT, Appellee, v. K-MART DISCOUNT STORES, a Division of S. S. Kresge Company, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 11, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Ray Berry, Columbia, S. C., on brief for appellant.

Alexander M. Sanders, Jr. and Ralph C. Robinson, Jr., Columbia, S. C., on brief for appellee.

Before WINTER, CRAVEN and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Defendant appeals the judgment of the district court awarding the plaintiff actual and punitive damages for false imprisonment upon a jury verdict in her favor.

Defendant's first assignment of error is that the plaintiff's evidence was insufficient to warrant the district court in submitting the case to the jury. We disagree. The plaintiff's evidence tended to show that she was wrongfully detained by the defendant's agents and when viewed in the...

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