Freeman v. Myron Green Cafeterias Company

COIL, Commissioner.

■ Aileen Freeman, plaintiff below, fell and was injured as a result of catching the toe of her shoe under the leg of a clothes tree in defendant’s cafeteria in Kansas City. Trial of her claim for $30,000 as damages for alleged injuries resulted in a defendant’s verdict. She appealed from the ensuing judgment and contends the trial court erred in giving instruction 6. Defendant counters that the instruction was correct but that, in any event, plaintiff failed to make a sub-missible case as to defendant’s negligence and that' she was contributorily negligent as a matter of…