Cook v. Kroger Baking & Grocery Co.

W. T. Cook brought suit against Kroger Baking and Grocery Company seeking damages resulting from injuries allegedly sustained by his wife in a Piggly-Wiggly store operated by the defendant at College Park, Georgia. The petition alleged, that it was the usual practice for a purchaser in the store to first obtain a basket at a counter, then proceed through the store to the various shelves, serving one’s self to the various articles, and, after obtaining all one desired, to go back to the counter where the cash register was located, in order to get his purchases wrapped and to pay therefor;…