BULLOCK v. SAFEWAY STORES

No. 15388.

236 F.2d 29 (1956)

Ralph BULLOCK, Appellant, v. SAFEWAY STORES, Inc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

July 12, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ray D. Jones, Jr., Kansas City, Mo., for appellant.

J. D. James, Kansas City, Mo. (Hogsett, Houts & James, Kansas City, Mo., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SANBORN, JOHNSEN, and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judges.


JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

The trial court, in a negligence suit of diversity jurisdiction, directed a verdict for the defendant at the close of the plaintiff's evidence, and the plaintiff has appealed.

Plaintiff claimed to have been hit and injured by a falling ladder in a back room of defendant's grocery store in Mission, Kansas. The question presented to us is whether the evidence as it stood, without any dissipation of its possible implications by proof on...

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