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Jury awards $260,000 in Dollar store tripping case A Clarke County Circuit Court jury recently returned a civil verdict for $260,000 for a Jackson woman who tripped and fell in a Dollar General store in Jackson. Arlie Taylor was awarded $85,000 in compensatory damages and $175,000 in punitive damages in the case that was filed in 2005. Attorneys Ric Gilmore and Gil Gilmore of the Gilmore Law Firm in Grove Hill represented Taylor. The initial complaint charged that Dollar General was negligent in leaving boxes in the store's aisle that caused Taylor, then 69, to fall and to have to have two knee surgeries. Dollar General attorneys claimed that arthritis and age were the reasons for the surgeries but doctors for Taylor testified that the fall did hasten the need for the surgeries. The trial lasted about three days and the jury was out for an afternoon and part of the next day before returning the verdict in Taylor's favor. Judge Stuart DuBose presided at the trial.
Attorneys for Dollar General have the right to appeal the jury's verdict but hadn't as of press time this week.
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