Giant Food, Inc. v. Mitchell

RODOWSKY, Judge.

While walking toward the nearby entrance to a supermarket of the petitioner, Giant Food, Inc. (Giant), the respondent, Cynthia Robin Mitchell (Ms. Mitchell), was run into and injured by a shoplifter who was fleeing from the store on foot. Ms. Mitchell sued Giant, contending that a Giant management trainee, Glenn Dye (Dye), had negligently confronted the shoplifter within the store. Here we review, under the law of business invitees, the sufficiency of Ms. Mitchell’s evidence that Giant was negligent, an issue on which the trial court and the Court of Special Appeals reached…