Reitz v. May Co. Department Stores

Nahra, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiffs, Barbara'A. Reitz and her husband Leonard M. Reitz, are appealing. the judgment of the trial court directing a verdict in favor of defendant, May Company Department Stores, following the opening statement of plaintiffs’ attorney. Plaintiffs are challenging the directed verdict and several evidentiary rulings. For the following reasons we affirm the judgment below.

On the afternoon of June 18, 1985, after exiting May’s-on-the-Heights, Mrs. Reitz was accosted and stabbed during the theft of her automobile in the May Company parking lot. She and her husband filed…