McKenney v. Quality Foods, Inc.

Plaintiff brought this action to recover for personal injuries resulting from a fall in defendant’s grocery store. The cause was tried before a jury which returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. Defendant appeals from the judgment and it is defendant’s theory on this appeal that the evidence is insufficient, as a matter of law, to establish any negligence on its part; that the court erred in denying defendant’s motions and in its instructions to the jury.

Defendant corporation operates a grocery store of the supermarket type in the Stonestown shopping center near San Francisco.…