Trispel v. Haefer

The plaintiff-appellant is the special administrator of the estate of Elsie E. Trispel who died in December of 1974. Barbara Haefer, Kohl’s Food Stores, Inc. and their respective insurers, Allstate and Continental Casualty Insurance companies are the defendants-respondents. The estate’s wrongful death action alleges that on January 31, 1974 Barbara Haefer negligently struck Elsie Trispel with a shopping cart causing the 83 year-old woman to fall to the floor and hit her head. It is also alleged that Kohl’s was in violation of the safe-place statute by maintaining unsafe and narrow aisleways…