HOWARD v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

No. 98-1781.

160 F.3d 358 (1998)

Dolores HOWARD, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WAL-MART STORES, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 3, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joan M. Lockwood (argued), Gray & Ritter, St. Louis, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

James E. DeFranco (argued), Neville, Richards, DeFranco & Wuller, Belleville, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS and ESCHBACH, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

We have before us a charming miniature of a case. In 1993 Dolores Howard, age 65, slipped and fell in a puddle of liquid soap that someone — no one knows who — had spilled on the floor of the aisle in a Wal-Mart store in Cahokia, Illinois. She was injured, and brought suit against Wal-Mart in an Illinois state court; the defendant removed the case to federal district court. At the time the...

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