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LUSK v. IRA WATSON CO.

No. 19894.

408 S.E.2d 630 (1991)

Mary Catherine LUSK, guardian of Stephen Lusk, A juvenile under the age of eighteen, Plaintiff, v. IRA WATSON COMPANY, d/b/a Watson's Backroom, A Delaware corporation authorized to do business in West Virginia, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided July 18, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard G. Rundle, Pineville, for plaintiff.

Martin R. Smith, Jr. and Luci R. Wellborn, Charleston, for defendant.

WORKMAN, Justice:

The United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, Bluefield Division, certified the following question to this Court:

Whether an owner of merchandise, his employee having called the police to the premises to investigate a possible shoplifting, is liable for an unreasonable detention of a suspected shoplifter by local police officers under West Virginia Code § 61-3A-4?

Upon review of the arguments...

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