Palmer v. F. W. Woolworth Co.

PALMORE, Judge.

Jacqueline Marie Palmer, an infant suing by next friend, appeals from a judgment entered on a directed verdict for the defendant at the close of plaintiff’s evidence in her action against F. W. Woolworth Company for personal injuries resulting from an accident in one of Woolworth’s stores. We concur in the judgment of the trial court that the evidence did not present a submissible issue of negligence.

The accident happened between the hours of 10:30 and 11:30 on a Saturday morning in June of 1967. Jackie, the plaintiff, was then 2½ years old and was with her mother, Georgia Ann…