Woods v. National Super Markets, Inc.

CRANDALL, Judge.

Defendant, National Super Markets, Inc., appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff, Brooksie Woods, in her action for damages resulting from bodily injuries suffered when she fell on defendant’s parking lot. The jury awarded plaintiff $35,000; but since the jury found her 25 per cent at fault under comparative negligence, judgment was entered for $26,250. We affirm.

Brooksie Woods was 78 years old at the time of this accident. She was grocery shopping at the National store at Newstead and Natural Bridge in St. Louis on November 16, 1981. When she…