Meade v. Kings Supermarket-Orange

After a jury trial plaintiffs were awarded damages on account of personal injuries sustained when Mrs. Meade was struck by a line of shopping carts and propelled through a plate glass window as she and her husband were leaving defendant’s store premises. Mr. Meade likewise suffered injuries from falling glass when he went to his wife’s assistance. The Appellate Division reversed the judgments entered in plaintiffs’ favor, relying in part on Znoski v. Shop-Rite Supermarkets, Inc., 122 N. J. Super. 243 (App. Div. 1973), and held that the only proximate cause of the accident was the action of a…