A Greenwood woman has filed a lawsuit against the Save-A-Lot grocery store on Park Avenue, saying she slipped and fell in hot sauce there last June.
According to the suit filed in Leflore County Circuit Court, Mary Banks is asking for $100,000 in compensatory damages and attorney fees.
The suit, which was filed at the end of February, is against Moran Food LLC — also known as Save-A-Lot — and its Park Avenue location manager, Dwayne Henson — although in the lawsuit it is spelled “Doran Henson.”
According to the suit, Banks was entering a checkout lane at the store when she slipped.
The case, which is only one side of a legal argument, alleges that Henson was made aware of the spill and “negligently failed to both clean up the spill and to deploy a caution sign to the area.”
It goes on to say that Henson came to Banks’ aid and expressed that the spill should have been cleaned up before the fall.
No response from Save-A-Lot or Henson has been filed.
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.”
She is being represented by Carlos Moore and Jasmine Bogard of the Cochran Firm in Grenada.
Henson declined to comment. Moore could not be reached.
- Contact Adam Bakst at 581-7233 or abakst@gwcommonwealth.com. On Twitter at @AdamBakst_GWCW.
