Kirchoff v. Tzinberg's Park "N" Shop Food Stores, Inc.

This is an appeal from an order of the City Court of East St. Louis, Illinois, allowing a motion for a directed verdict and entering judgment in favor of defendant, Tzinberg’s Park “N” Shop Food Stores, Inc., a corporation, and as against the plaintiff, Helen Kirchoff.

An action for damages alleging negligence of defendant in the operating and managing of a grocery store was instituted by plaintiff in which she alleged that she was injured by glass shot into the top of her foot by an exploding bottle of root beer which had been mishandled. The complaint consists of two counts, the first of…