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SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. v. SCROGGINS

No. 12701.

140 F.2d 718 (1944)

SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. v. SCROGGINS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 9, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert George Winter, of St. Louis, Mo. (Roscoe Anderson, William R. Gilbert, and Anderson, Gilbert, Wolfort, Allen & Bierman, all of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellant.

Douglas H. Jones, of St. Louis, Mo., for appellee.

Before SANBORN and WOODROUGH, Circuit Judges, and HULEN, District Judge.

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding damages to William Scroggins for personal injuries suffered as a result of a fall over boxes which had been placed in the aisle of defendant's store by its employees.

On the morning of May 29, 1941, at a few minutes past 10 o'clock, plaintiff, William Scroggins, his two sons, Bill and Joe, and a friend, William Reiter, entered the Sears Roebuck store on Grand Avenue in St. Louis and descended...

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