>> No, Your Honor.
>> My husband, he counted it,
Your Honor.
>> Your Honor, I only got 5,510
from the plaintiff.
>> Judge Judy: Fifty-five?
>> Five thousand, five hundred
and ten dollars
that I counted in front of her.
>> Well, you knew that all
the cash
in the safe belonged to her.
It didn't belong to you, right?
I don't care about you
being nervous.
Invite her to your house
to open the safe.
You knew all the cash
in the safe,
your brother told you,
belonged to her.
So it would seem to me that,
if all you were looking for
was the insurance policy,
and the most valuable thing
in the safe was the cash,
you would have made certain,
if you wanted to be honest,
that the person who was supposed
to get the cash would be there
when you opened the safe.
Do you understand
where I'm going?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Good.
So money owed for the return
of your brother's property
that you say was taken
without your permission,
did your brother have a will?
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: Pfft.
Maybe, maybe not.
Who knows?
You were the only ones there
when the safe was opened.
>> No.
>> Judge Judy:
You were the only ones
there when the safe was opened.
>> My witness, my daughter,
Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: A daughter?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: And a husband?
>> And my husband, yes.
>> Judge Judy: Yeah.
Okay.
That's it.
What?
>> May I speak, Your Honor?
Why would I take the money?
She didn't even know it was
in the safe.
I gave it to her.
If she didn't know
it was in the safe...
>> Judge Judy:
You gave her what...
>> ...Your Honor, and I gave it
to her,
why would I want to take it?
I didn't want her money.
I wanted to bury my brother,
Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: Then what you do
is, if you knew that all the...
>> I didn't know
how much, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
You're not...Listen.
Whether you're playing dumb
or that's not an act,
I don't know which one it is.
>> It's the truth, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: If you knew
that all the money
in the safe belonged to her,
then you open the safe
in front of her.
>> I tried, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy:
Then take her to your house.
Don't remove the safe
from where it is that the most
valuable thing in is the cash.
Take her to your house.
>> Your Honor,
when I got to the house,
and the envelope was in there
with her name on it,
we immediately gave it to her.
>> Judge Judy: I don't...
Listen to me.
She can't prove otherwise,
so I don't know
how much was in there,
and she doesn't know exactly
how much was in there,
so I can't guess
how much was in there,
but I want you to know
that that's
the sense that I'm coming to
when I'm coming to your other
claims
that she took valuable property
that belonged to your brother
and that you are entitled to.
That's my mind-set.
So now you want to tell me
what property
that you claim she took
that belonged to your brother?
>> Yes.
That was valuable,
was very valued to my brother
and sentimental to me,
Your Honor, it was his computer,
printer, fax machine,
Bose speakers, watch,
jewelries, household
items, a number of things.
>> Judge Judy: Did you take
any of those things?
>> No, ma'am.
The only thing that I took
that was in
the initial police report...
>> Oh, my God.
>> ...was an electric trash
can.
That was the only thing
that I took from the house
other than my things.
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
Do you have anyone who saw her
take
the property from the house?
>> No.
I know she took it, Your Honor.
She was the only one had a key.
I had a key.
My brother had a key,
and he's in heaven,
so she was the only one.
And, Your Honor, when you go
in the house to see it,
all of her things was gone,
and so was
my brother's valuables.
>> Uh-huh.
>> And she the only one had
access to the house, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: Oh, well.
Mm.
It makes a good...Could be.
>> And, Your Honor, I know
the difference between a robbery
and a steal, you know?
She robbed him.
>> Judge Judy: You do, really?
>> She robbed him.
>> Judge Judy: Really?
>> Yes.
You think that you...
You think that I think
that you robbed her of money?
>> No, I didn't, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: Yep.
But do you...I didn't ask you
whether you did or not.
Do you think that I think
that you did?
>> You shouldn't, Your Honor,
because if she didn't know
she was getting the money,
and I gave it to her...
>> Judge Judy:
You gave her some of it.
>> No.
I gave her all of it,
Your Honor...
>> Judge Judy: Don't believe it.
>> ...what all was
in the envelope.
>> Judge Judy:
I don't believe it.
Anyway, you have a counterclaim,
and your counterclaim
really is for the money.
>> Mm-hmm.
>> Judge Judy:
But you have no idea
how much money was in there.
>> I do not.
>> Judge Judy: Problem,
it's a problem.
>> Mm-hmm.
>> Judge Judy: I don't know
how much money was in there,
and we can't play
a guessing game.
>> Yeah.
I was paying him
200 for the first 2 years,
when I first moved in,
and then he raised it to 350,
and for the last year,
since the beginning of 2016,
I was paying 400.
I had spoke with Dorris and...
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
It doesn't matter.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy: If what you're
telling me
is that you were paying for room
and board
and paying him so much,
and that...Put your hand down.
And that's the money that
you think he was putting away,
it doesn't matter
because you don't know,
and you have to know.
>> Yeah.
My calculations came from...
She openly admitted
to me and my sister
that she knows of $250
since I've moved in,
so that was 13,000.
>> Judge Judy: I don't care,
Miss Reed.
Miss Reed, it's all guesswork.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy:
Now, I'm interested
in what happened at the funeral
because it's your claim...
>> Mm-hmm.
>> Judge Judy: ...that you were
assaulted at the funeral.
>> Yes.