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CODNER v. SKAGGS DRUG CENTERS, INC.

No. 48,694

224 Kan. 531 (1978)

581 P.2d 387

CAROLYN A. CODNER, Appellee, v. GORDON O. TOONE, ERMA L. GILLEY and SKAGGS DRUG CENTERS, INC., doing business as SKAGGS THRIFTY CITY, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed July 21, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. O'Neal, of Hodge, Reynolds, Smith, Peirce, and Forker, of Hutchinson, argued the cause and Kenneth E. Peirce, of the same firm, was with him on the brief for the appellants.

R.L. Leslie, of Hess, Leslie, Berkley, and Granger, of Hutchinson, argued the cause and was on the brief for the appellee.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

PRAGER, J.:

This is an action to recover damages for false imprisonment and slander. The plaintiff, Carolyn A. Codner, was detained for forty minutes in a Hutchinson store of Skaggs Drug Centers, Inc., on a suspicion of shoplifting. The case was tried to a jury which brought in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $5,000 actual damages and $0 punitive damages. The defendants in the case were Skaggs...

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