ALONGI v. F.W. WOOLWORTH CO., INC.

No. 11949.

405 So.2d 1120 (1981)

Diane B. ALONGI et al. v. F.W. WOOLWORTH COMPANY, INC. d/b/a Woolco Store No. 6018.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

October 8, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne J. McDougall, Chalmette, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Law Offices of James J. Morse, Michael F. Grennan, New Orleans, for F.W. Woolworth Co., Inc.

Law Offices of Adams & Reese, Oscar L. Shoenfelt, III, New Orleans, for Liberty Mutual Ins. Co.

Terry Christovich Gay, Christovich & Christovich, New Orleans, for Unarco Commercial Products, Inc.

Before SAMUEL, REDMANN, BOUTALL and KLEES, JJ., and BAILES, J. Pro Tem.


REDMANN, Judge.

The trial judge had ample support for the basic factual conclusion that the shopping cart was in an unreasonably dangerous condition. The testimony of disinterested witness Crovetto was that the cart tilted as the 30-pound, three-year-old plaintiff child, standing in its merchandise section, moved toward its side; that the cart returned upright as the child stepped back to the center of the cart, and turned over when the child again stepped to its...

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