Corley v. Kroger Grocery & Baking Co.

Hulda Corley obtained a judgment of $3,000 for personal injuries sustained in a fall at the entrance of one of the stores of Kroger Grocery Baking Company, a corporation, and the defendant appealed. One of the Judges of the St. Louis Court of Appeals believing the cause should be remanded for a new trial dissented from [898] an opinion reversing the judgment and the cause was certified here for determination. See 189 S.W.2d 178, where the facts may be found in greater detail than herein set forth.

Mrs. Corley lived in an apartment building about four blocks from one of defendant's stores in…