Riffel

The defendant Arthur Letts owns and operates a department store in the city of Los Angeles. The plaintiff purchased certain merchandise in his store and requested that it he delivered to her at her residence, the price to be paid on delivery. The goods were delivered by the defendant Withrow, an employee of Letts, to whom the plaintiff tendered a ten-dollar bill and received the change amounting to $8.65. While this exchange of money was going on the plaintiff suddenly remembered that she had had in her possession two ten-dollar bills; and acting under the belief that she had delivered one of them to Withrow, she attempted to withdraw the bill which she had tendered but which still remained in her hand. According to Withrow’s testimony this bill was in his possession and she seized and took it out of his hand. But this is disputed by her, and as the fact is material, it must be deemed that the jury believed her testimony. Thereupon Withrow seized the plaintiff, violently pulled her from place to place in the yard near the door of her house, and finally lifted her up and carried her to the street and placed her in the wagon in a caged inclosure, the door of which he closed and…