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DENT v. MAY DEPT. STORES CO.

No. 81-1086.

459 A.2d 1042 (1982)

Doris J. DENT, Appellant, v. MAY DEPARTMENT STORES COMPANY t/a The Hecht Company, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 8, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander L. Benton, Washington, D.C., was on the brief for appellant.

John Jude O'Donnell, Washington, D.C., with whom Randell Hunt Norton, Washington, D.C., was on the brief for appellee.

Before KERN and MACK, Associate Judges, and GALLAGHER, Associate Judge, Retired.

PER CURIAM:

Appellant appeals from an order of the trial court which granted appellee's motion for summary judgment in her action for false arrest and imprisonment. We affirm.

Uncontradicted evidence before the trial court established that on the afternoon of March 8, 1980 appellant, a customer in appellee's department store, The Hecht Company, purchased a skirt. The cashier apparently failed to remove a magnetized sensormatic device designed to apprehend...

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