SKELTON v. GENERAL CANDY CO.

No. 36912.

539 S.W.2d 605 (1976)

Margaret SKELTON, Plaintiff, v. GENERAL CANDY COMPANY, Defendant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, St. Louis District, Division Three.

Motion for Rehearing or Transfer Denied July 9, 1976.

Application to Transfer Denied September 13, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Armstrong, Teasdale, Kramer & Vaughan, John J. Cole, Larry B. Luber, St. Louis, for defendant.

James F. Koester, David G. Dempsey, Shifrin, Treiman, Bamburg & Dempsey, St. Louis, for plaintiff.


GUNN, Judge.

Plaintiff-respondent fell on defendant-appellant's parking lot. The jury awarded plaintiff $15,000 for injuries sustained as a result of the fall, and defendant has appealed. On appeal, defendant suggests four points of alleged trial error: 1) that the plaintiff's verdict directing instruction embraced two theories of recovery, neither of which was supported by the evidence; 2) that plaintiff was permitted...

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