Earnhart v. J. C. Penney Co.

OPINION

JOHN E. MILLER, Senior District Judge.

On November 19, 1975, plaintiff, Mildred Redding Earnhart, a resident and citizen of Fort Smith, Arkansas, filed her Amended Complaint against defendant, J. C. Penney Co., Inc., a foreign corporation duly qualified to do business in the State of Arkansas, seeking to recover substantial actual and punitive damages in excess of Ten Thousand and No/100 ($10,000.00) Dollars, exclusive of interests and costs for personal injuries allegedly sustained by plaintiff on December 23, 1974 in a fall in the store of defendant, proximately caused by certain…