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SUPERX DRUGS OF KENTUCKY, INC. v. RICE

554 S.W.2d 903 (1977)

SUPERX DRUGS OF KENTUCKY, INC., and Leslie Rowland, Appellants, v. Wanda RICE, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

August 19, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grant F. Knuckles, Pineville, William A. Watson, Watson & Watson, Middlesboro, for appellee.

Glenn W. Denham, Denham, Ralston & Nagle, Middlesboro, O. Grant Bruton, Jefferson Davis Stewart, III, Middleton, Reutlinger & Baird, Louisville, for appellants.

W. Terry McBrayer, Greenup, amicus curiae Kentucky Retail Federation, Inc.

Before PARK, REYNOLDS and WILHOIT, JJ.

PARK, Judge.

This appeal arises out of an action for false imprisonment brought by the plaintiff-appellee, Wanda Rice, against the defendants-appellants, SuperX Drugs of Kentucky, Inc., and a clerk in its Middlesboro store, Leslie Rowland. On the first two trials of the case, the juries were unable to agree on a verdict. On the third trial of the case, the jury returned a verdict in favor of Mrs. Rice, awarding her $75,000 as compensatory damages and $75,000 as punitive...

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