Atlantic Zayre, Inc. v. Meeks

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Appellee Steve Meeks, a juvenile, and his slightly older brother were shopping for fishing lures. Having purchased approximately $5 worth at a K-mart, they proceeded to a nearby Zayre’s store to compare the merchandise. Parking their old truck in the store’s parking lot, they took the K-mart lures from the paper bags in which K-mart check-out personnel had placed them, put the lures into their pockets, and entered Zayre’s. While examining Zayre’s fishing lures appellee took a K-mart lure from his pocket and, after holding it up for comparison with the Zayre’s item,…