COBB v. STANDARD DRUG CO., INC.

No. 82-33.

453 A.2d 110 (1982)

Martha COBB, Appellant, v. STANDARD DRUG COMPANY, INC., et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 10, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey L. Taylor, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Susan E. Greenlief, with whom Robert L. Ellis, Arlington, Va., was on brief, for appellee Standard Drug Co., Inc.

David Florin, with whom Walter J. Smith, Jr. and Wilson, Elser, Edelman & Dicker, Washington, D.C., was on brief, for appellee Armstrong Professional Sec. Service, Inc.

Before KELLY, BELSON and TERRY, Associate Judges.


TERRY, Associate Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment for the defendants in an action for battery, false imprisonment, and defamation. Appellant alleged in her amended complaint that she purchased two items of merchandise in a drug store and was about to leave the store when she was accosted by a security guard, who asked her if the goods she was carrying had been paid for; she said that they had been and showed him the sales slip, then continued out the door...

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