Galloway v. J. C. Penney Co.

ROBERTSON, Justice.

Appellant, Mrs. C. A. Galloway, brought suit against appellee, J. C. Penney Company, in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, for injuries sustained by her when she tripped and fell on a rubber mat in front of the entrance doors to the appellee’s store in Jackson, Mississippi.

After the appellant had rested, the court sustained a motion to exclude the evidence and to direct a verdict for the defendant. The only assignment of error is that the lower court erred “in sustaining Appellee’s motion for a peremptory instruction at the…