TOCKER v. GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA COMPANY

No. 3213.

190 A.2d 822 (1963)

Helen N. TOCKER, Appellant, v. The GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 17, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maxwell A. Ostrow, Washington, D. C., with whom Herman Tocker, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

John L. Laskey, Washington, D. C., with whom Francis L. Young, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and QUINN and MYERS, Associate Judges.


MYERS, Associate Judge.

A customer appeals from a directed verdict for appellee at the conclusion of her case in which she sought to recover damages, both compensatory and punitive, for alleged slander, false arrest and wrongful detention.

The errors charged were rulings by the trial judge (1) that the words spoken by the store employee were not slanderous per se, viz., that they did not charge her with a crime involving moral turpitude and did not...

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