Carroll v. May Department Stores

This action was brought by J. Charles Carroll, as plaintiff, against May Department Stores Company, as defendant, for damages resulting from injuries sustained by plaintiff’s wife, Mrs. Signe A. Carroll, when she was struck on the head by a metal ash stand which fell from the eighth floor.of defendant’s store in the City of St. Louis. A trial before the court and a jury resulted in a verdict for plaintiff, in the sum of $1500, but the trial court sustained defendant’s motion for a new trial on the ground that plaintiff failed to make a case for the jury. 'From the order granting defendant a…