Kroger Grocery Baking Company v. Kennedy

Appellant brings this appeal from a judgment of the Hempstead circuit court for $3,000 in favor of appellee, Nolin Kennedy, for alleged injuries resulting from a fall on the floor of appellant’s grocery store in Hope, Arkansas.

The acts of negligence relied upon in the complaint of appellee were the failure of appellant to furnish him a safe place in which to work, safe tools with which to perform his work, and the failure of Arthur Morris, a fellow-servant, to sweep the floor upon which appellee fell.

Appellant’s answer to these allegations was a general denial coupled with the pleas of…