Cox v. K-Mart Enterprises of Georgia, Inc.

Marshall, Judge.

The appellants, Mr. and Mrs. Cox, bring their appeals from a jury verdict in favor of the defendant below, appellee K-Mart Enterprises of Georgia, Inc.

The facts disclose that Mrs. Cox, along with her husband, went to a K-Mart store to make a purchase. After completing their business, the Coxes were in the process of leaving the store. While controverted, there was evidence that, as Mrs. Cox was pushing a shopping cart down an aisle in the store, an electric cord attached to a heavy industrial vacuum cleaner (weighing some 18 pounds) became entangled in the cart, and the vacuum…