Sevcech v. Ingles Markets, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• jury issue on outrageousness where store patron was accused of shoplifting and assaulted and battered by store employee
• plaintiff’s testimony sufficient evidence of causal connection to withstand defendant’s motion for summary judgment
• jury issue existed as to whether emotional distress was severe; customer accused of shoplifting was taken to office, where employee assaulted and battered him, called police, and had plaintiff arrested, even though no stolen items were found on him
• “Loss of consortium claims are derivative.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).