Kimbrell v. Bi-Lo, Inc.

Bussey, Justice.

The plaintiff, Carrie W. Kimbrell, sustained a fall in a self-service grocery store operated by the defendant, Bi-Lo, Inc. This action for her injuries followed, and resulted in a verdict for $3500.00 actual damages. The defendant appeals from the refusal of its timely motions for a verdict by direction of the court and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.

The complaint alleges that plaintiff, an elderly woman, entered the defendant’s store as a customer, through swinging doors, onto a “ramp-like structure with a precipitous incline,” of which there was no warning and…