JACONNE v. SCHWEGMANN BROS. GIANT, ETC.

No. 12461.

407 So.2d 513 (1981)

Isabel JACONNE v. SCHWEGMANN BROTHERS GIANT SUPER MARKETS, INC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Denied January 25, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Occhipinti, Grace & Berger, William E. Mura, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Beard, Blue, Schmitt, Mathes, Koch & Williams, George R. Blue, Jr., New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.


REDMANN, Judge.

Defendant self-service supermarket appeals from a $14,000 jury verdict for damages to the 83-year-old plaintiff from falling over a six-inch-high platform.

The platform was about 15 feet long and was used to stack bags of sugar. Toward each end the sugar was stacked high. Defendant's security chief testified "In the center [for an area about three feet wide] there was no sugar at all except two or three small bags left on the bottom. They ...

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