Hopper v. JC Penney Company

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff Evelyn Hopper, a feme sole, brought suit for personal injuries against J. C. Penney Company, alleging personal injuries proximately caused as the result of the condition of stairs on which she fell. Trial was to a jury, but upon the conclusion of plaintiff’s case an instructed verdict was directed and judgment thereon entered that plaintiff take nothing. An appeal was taken, hence the matter before us.

Judgment affirmed.

It is manifest that in negligence cases of this character, as in negligence cases generally, proof of proximate causation is an absolute…