Howell v. Ernest Yeager & Sons, Inc.

ROBERTSON, Justice:

The appellant, Mrs. Clarice Howell, alleged that she slipped and fell on a banana as she shopped in the supermarket of the appellee, Ernest Yeager & Sons, Inc. She brought suit in the Circuit Court of George County against the owner of the store and D. S. Bond, its manager.

After the appellant had put on her case, the appellees moved for a directed verdict, and the trial judge sustained this motion. The appellant assigns as error the action of the trial judge in directing the jury to find for the appellees.

About 1 p.m., February 1, 1965, Mrs. Clarice Howell, the appellant,…