Save-A-Lot grocery store on Park Avenue has responded to a lawsuit from a Greenwood woman who said she slipped and fell in hot sauce there last June.
According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Leflore County Circuit Court in February, Mary Banks is asking for at least $100,000 in compensatory damages and attorney’s fees from Moran Food LLC, also known as Save-A-Lot.
The lawsuit reports that Banks was entering a checkout lane at the store on June 8, 2020, when she slipped on hot sauce that had spilled onto the floor when its bottle was dropped by another customer.
Banks is suing on two counts of negligence and claims she suffered an injury to her right knee, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, medical expenses and other “economic and non-economic damages.”
Moran Foods’ response denies a number of Banks’ allegations and says the others were either misdirected to Save-A-Lot or were presented without enough information to admit or deny.
The company also charges that Banks failed to “act as a reasonably prudent person would under the same or similar circumstances,” that she “failed to walk safely” and that she “failed to wear reasonable footwear,” among other rebuttals.
The response goes on to say the spill was not due to the store’s negligence but rather “an unidentified third party,” who was in the same checkout line.
Furthermore, the response said the store had “no control or duty to control at the time and place of the alleged occurrence.”
Moran is being represented by a Memphis attorney, Marc Sorin, and Banks’ attorney is Carlos E. Moore of Grenada.
- Contact Adam Bakst at 581-7233 or abakst@gwcommonwealth.com. On Twitter at @AdamBakst_GWCW.
