Centers v. Dollar Markets

VALLÉE, J.

Appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment for defendants entered on a directed verdict in an action for damages for malicious prosecution. The claim is that the evidence was such as to require the submission of the cause to the jury.

For a number of years prior to February 21, 1948, Dollar Markets, a corporation, had operated a supermarket in Long Beach. The market was of the self-service type, with two cash registers near the entrance. Plaintiff, a housewife, with her husband and three children, had lived adjacent to the market for three and a half years. She had done substantially all…