Patterson v. Kroger Company

In these consolidated causes, by consent of the parties, Chancellor Brooks McLemore of Jackson, Tennessee, sat in place of Judge J. B. Avery, Sr., who was ill.

Mrs. Winnie Patterson and Aubrey Patterson, her husband, who were plaintiffs in the lower court, appeal in error from a verdict of the jury and judgment thereon in favor of the defendant, The Kroger Company. In this opinion, the parties will be styled, as in the lower court, plaintiffs and defendant, or called by their respective names.

Mrs. Winnie Patterson sued for personal injuries resulting from a fall in one of the defendant’s…