Loving v. Baker's Supermarkets, Inc.

In her negligence action against Baker’s Supermarkets, Inc. (Baker’s), Kathryn N. Loving claimed damages from her fall on the floor of a Baker’s supermarket. After a verdict for Baker’s, the court overruled Loving’s motion for new trial; hence this appeal in which Loving’s primary contention is misconduct by the j ury in reaching the verdict.

LOVING’S SLIP AND FALL

While Timothy Jones, a Baker’s employee, was carrying out groceries for a supermarket patron, he dropped some glass bottles of beer on the floor near the supermarket’s checkout area. To clean up the beer and broken bottles, Jones got…