Helen S. Sharp and Rex P. Sharp v. J. C. Penney Company, Inc.

CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.

In this case the defendant-appellant, J. C. Penney Company, Inc., appeals from a judgment entered against it in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Northern Division. Helen S. Sharp and her husband Rex P. Sharp, plaintiffs-appellees, brought the action in the District Court to recover damages suffered as a result of the alleged negligence of the defendant-appellant in the maintenance and operation of its store in the city of Knoxville.

Jurisdiction of the District Court was invoked by reason of diversity of citizenship (Section…