Bertha Jolivette Zeno v. The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, D/B/A a & P Food Stores

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

The defendant, a grocery store company, appeals from an adverse jury verdict in a “slip and fall” case that came to the district court on removal from Louisiana state court. The issues are: (1) whether the jury’s finding of liability was clearly erroneous and unsupported by the evidence; and (2) whether the jury’s damages figure, $95,000.00, was so clearly erroneous as to “shock the conscience of the court.”

We find that the record sufficiently supports both the findings on liability and damages, and accordingly affirm.

I. FACTS

On a rainy Sunday in Lafayette, Louisiana,…