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MAY DEPARTMENT STORES COMPANY, INC. v. DEVERCELLI

No. 6052.

314 A.2d 767 (1974)

MAY DEPARTMENT STORES COMPANY, INC., t/a the Hecht Company, Appellant, v. Elsa V. DEVERCELLI, as Administratrix of the Estate of Rudolfo Devercelli, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 14, 1973.

Rehearing En Banc Denied February 13, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Roy Thompson, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom John Jude O'Donnell, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Paul Martin Wolff, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GALLAGHER, NEBEKER and YEAGLEY, Associate Judges.

YEAGLEY, Associate Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment for $165,000 based on a verdict awarding appellee's decedent $25,000 compensatory damages and $50,000 punitive damages for false imprisonment; $40,000 compensatory and $40,000 punitive damages for assault and/or battery; and $10,000 for insulting words. The action arose out of the apprehension, detention, and interrogation of appellee's decedent

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