Smith v. A. B. Bonded Locksmith, Inc.

Painter, Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant Deloris Smith awoke one morning to find several strangers in the entrance hallway inside her home. The strangers were acting under the authority of a court order to repossess furniture that had been purchased by Smith’s daughter. They entered the home with the services of a locksmith, and it is unclear from the record whether they knocked or called out in an attempt to gain voluntary admittance before they resorted to the locksmith’s services. Unfortunately, the furniture was not, nor apparently had it ever been, in Smith’s home. Smith objected to the…