Owen v. Kroger Co.

This is an action by Ed Owen and his wife to recover damages for personal injuries and loss of consortium resulting from Mrs. Owen’s having slipped and fallen upon a banana peel on the floor of the Kroger Company’s grocery store at Conway. At the close of the plaintiffs’ proof the trial court directed a verdict for the defendants (the company and its local manager) on the ground that the peel was not shown to have been on the floor sufficiently long for the defendants to be chargeable Avith negligence in having failed to discover it. Kroger Gro. & Baking Co. v. Dempsey, 201 Ark. 71, 143, S.…