Shephard v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Bees

Affirming.

Katie Shephard instituted this action against the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company to recover damages for injuries received by her when she slipped and fell in an alley adjoining a grocery store operated by appellee in Georgetown, Kentucky. She stepped on a flattened cardboard box which slipped and caused her to fall. After the accident she saw under the box a banana peeling and some lettuce leaves which she assumed had been placed in the alley by an employee of the appellee. At the conclusion of the plaifitiff’s evidence the court sustained a…