Penn Fruit, Inc. v. Clark

Precluded from adducing evidence which, it alleges, vould show a lack of permanent injury, Penn Fruit Company, Inc. (Penn) appeals from a $9,000 judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of Mrs. Ruth L. Clark for her personal injuries when she slipped and fell in the appellant’s store on October 29,1965.

Upon entering Penn’s store in the Mondawmin Shopping Center, Mrs. Clark went directly to the meat counter where she picked out two packages of scrapple. She then turned from the counter, took approximately two or three steps in the direction of the check-out register, when her right foot…