Steffensen v. Smith's Management Corp.

OPINION

BILLINGS, Associate Presiding Judge:

This is an appeal from a jury verdict in a negligence action. Plaintiff Pearl Steffen-sen was injured in defendant Smith’s Management Corporation’s (“Smith”) grocery store by a shoplifter attempting to flee from the store’s management. The jury found Smith was negligent, but the negligence was not the proximate cause of Mrs. Steffensen’s injury. On appeal, Mrs. Steffensen asserts the trial court improperly: (1) ruled Smith’s failure to train its employees as to the appropriate methods to deal with shoplifters or to deter shoplifting was not, as a…