Joy v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

FENNER, Judge.

Safeway Stores, Inc., d/b/a Food Bam, hereinafter Safeway, appeals from the trial court’s Order of October 29, 1987, overruling Safeway’s Motion to Set Aside Interlocutory Default Judgment and to File Answer Out of Time.

On July 1, 1987, Ruby Joy, plaintiff in the underlying action and respondent herein, filed a petition against Safeway alleging damages in the amount of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000) for injuries she claimed to have received in a slip and fall accident on October 13, 1982. Process was served on the manager of Safeway in Claycomo, Missouri; the store…