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DART DRUG, INC. v. LINTHICUM

No. 6509.

300 A.2d 442 (1973)

DART DRUG, INC., Appellant, v. Eva LINTHICUM, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 6, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Foote, Jr., Rockville, Md., with whom James C. Gregg and Hugh Lynch, Jr., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Albert J. Ahern, Jr., Alexandria, Va., for appellee.

Before REILLY, Chief Judge, and NEBEKER and HARRIS, Associate Judges.

NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

This appeal from a judgment awarding compensatory and punitive damages1 on a count of false arrest primarily attacks the sufficiency of the evidence to support the punitive damages award against the appellant corporation. After reviewing the evidence we agree and reverse that part of the judgment.

Mrs. Eva Linthicum and Miss Joyce Beverly, a co-worker, entered a Dart Drug, Inc. (hereinafter Dart) store...

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