Young v. Kmart Corp.

The plaintiff, Catherine Young, began work for the defendant, Kmart, in 1966 as a stock clerk. She worked as a stock clerk until 1970, when she started working at the service desk of the Kmart store at Oakland and Grand River Avenue in the City of Detroit. She worked until she suffered a heart attack in December of 1975. Prior to 1975, the plaintiff had not suffered any illness which required hospitalization and was never under a physician’s care for anything other than minor ailments.

Her duties as a service desk clerk included waiting on customers with complaints, taking care of lay-aways…