Carraway v. National Super Markets, Inc.

CRIST, Judge.

National Super Markets, Inc. (supermarket) appeals from a $5,000 jury verdict and judgment awarded plaintiff in his suit for damages from injuries received when he slipped and fell in a National grocery store. We reverse.

On March 30, 1987, Richard Mueller was the assistant manager at the National in Spanish Lake, Missouri. His duties included checking the aisles and keeping them clean. He checked the store at 7:30 p.m. on March 30, 1987, by walking across the front and back of the store and looking down the aisles. He did not walk up and down each aisle. He saw nothing unusual.…