Florida Jitney Jungle Stores, Inc. v. Montgomery

JOHNSON, Judge.

The defendants-appellants appeal a final judgment entered upon a jury verdict awarding plaintiffs-appellees $18,000.00 in damages sustained as a result of a fall in appellant’s grocery store. It is contended by appellants that their motions for a directed verdict should have been granted inasmuch as there was no evidence from which a jury could conclude that negligence on the part of appellant caused ap-pellee’s fall.

This cause of action arises out of a typical slip and fall incident occurring while appellees were shopping in appellant’s Jitney Jungle Store. Appellees had been…