Gallow v. Jack Eckerd Corp.

DOUCET, Judge.

The plaintiffs, Gilbert and Jocelyn Gallow, appeal a jury verdict and the denial of their motion for new trial.

The plaintiffs filed suit against Jack Eck-erd Corporation (Eckerd), its insurer, and Walter Grier, an Eckerd employee. Plaintiffs allege that Mrs. Gallow was injured while a customer in an Eckerd Drug Store in Opelousas, La. They allege that she was stooping to look at some perfume bottles on the lower shelf of a display when Walter Grier, the store manager, came down the aisle carrying a pile of boxes, tripped over Mrs. Gallow, inflicted a blow to her head, and…