ELDER v. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO.

No. 57120.

516 So.2d 231 (1987)

Minnie L. ELDER v. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. & Robert Bates.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 25, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Victor McTeer, Willie L. Bailey, John Ackerly, McTeer & Bailey, Greenville, for appellant.

Paul J. Delcambre, Jr., Page, Minnino & Peresich, Biloxi, William C. Trotter, III, Belzoni, for appellees.

En Banc:


ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

This is a premises liability suit filed by Minnie L. Elder for a slip and fall accident at a Sears, Roebuck & Company catalogue store against both Sears and its authorized catalogue merchant, Robert Bates. Sears denied that an agency relationship existed with its catalogue merchant and asserted that the merchant had control of the premises. After a jury verdict against Sears alone, the Circuit...

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