Hoffman v. the Kroger Company

WOLFE, Presiding Judge.

This is an action for damages arising out of personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff when she fell on the parking lot of the Kroger Company store in DeSoto, Missouri. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $7,500. In due time after the entry of the judgment upon the verdict, the defendant filed its motion for a new trial and a motion for judgment in accordance with its motion for a directed verdict previously made. Both motions were overruled, and the defendant has appealed from the judgment.

The parking lot where the occurrence took place was a…