Feist v. Sears, Roebuck & Company

This is an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by a four-year-old child when a cash register in one of defendant’s stores fell from a counter and struck the head of the child, causing a basal skull fracture. Defendant admitted liability. The jury returned a verdict of $35,000. Defendant appeals, based upon claimed errors in the admission of testimony and in instructions to the jury. We affirm.

The primary issue on appeal, as stated by defendant, is “whether the trial court erred in receiving testimony about the possibility that plaintiff may contract meningitis as a result of…