Baptiste v. Better Val-U Supermarket, Inc.

Opinion

KATZ, J.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the trial court properly determined that, under the circumstances of this case, the named defendant, Better Val-U Supermarket, Inc. (defendant), owed a duty to the plaintiff, Sterne Baptiste, who, in the course of completing the forms necessary to conduct a monetary wire transfer through facilities owned by Western Union Financial Services, Inc. (Western Union), which were located on the defendant’s premises, placed on the defendant’s counter an envelope containing $5000 in cash, which disappeared. The plaintiff brought an action…