Laney v. Bi-Lo, Inc.

Goolsby, Judge:

This is a slip and fall case. The jury returned a $60,000 verdict in favor of the plaintiff Kate G. Laney against the defendant Bi-Lo, Inc. Bi-Lo appeals, contending the trial judge should have directed a verdict in its favor because the evidence is insufficient to support a verdict in Mrs. Laney’s favor. We disagree and affirm.

Since this is a law case, we must view the evidence and all its reasonable inferences in the light most favorable to Mrs. Laney, the party who resisted the motion for directed verdict, and most strongly against Bi-Lo, the party making the motion. Because…