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Title: Garcia v. Southwestern Bell Tel. Co.
Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
Release Date : January 05, 1975
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 57 KB

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This is an appeal from an action brought by Maria C. Garcia (plaintiff-appellant) against Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (defendant-appellee) for the recovery of damages for trespass and invasion of privacy and for punitive damages. The facts are not in dispute. Appellee's employee (who had been on the job one week) had been directed to remove a telephone service from apartment B in an apartment complex located in Wichita, Kansas. Since no one was home and the door was locked, he attempted to enter through a window in what he thought to be the correct apartment. The window, however, belonged to apartment D which was occupied by the appellant and her small child who were asleep in a bed near the window. The employee removed the screen from the window, raised the window and pushed the venetian blind inward in an effort to ascertain whether the apartment was vacant. In doing so he struck several items of personal property, including a clock radio which fell on the appellant and her child and was damaged to the extent of $27.50. The appellant saw the employee's arm inside the window and was disturbed and frightened. The appellant alleged in her petition that the employee's acts constituted a trespass and an invasion of privacy which caused the appellee mental anguish. She sought actual damages for medical and psychiatric treatment, past and future, $35 for repairs to the radio and $500,000 punitive damages.