Devine v. Kroger Grocery & Baking Co.

In this reassigned cause the Kroger Grocery Baking Company appeal from a $10,000.00 personal injury judgment in favor of Dorothy Devine.

The suit was originally against Kroger Grocery Baking Company, Henry Boemler, the manager of the store at Eureka, Missouri, and John Fromm, the owner of the building. The trial court sustained a demurrer to the respondent's petition as to Fromm and the case was then dismissed as to him. The jury returned a verdict in favor of Boemler and against the appellant. The appellant now contends that plaintiff's petition stated a cause of action based on the principle…