Hoover v. May Department Stores Co.

This is an appeal by defendant May Department Stores Company from a judgment of the circuit court of Madison County in favor of plaintiffs Ronald Hoover and Sheila Ruth, individually, and as representatives of a class composed of defendant’s charge account customers.

The judgment appealed from is a summary judgment with detailed findings entered on March 2, 1977, pursuant to the parties’ separate motions for summary judgment and May’s motion to dismiss the action as a class action. Since portions of the order were necessarily interlocutory in nature, the court, on the motion of defendant,…