United States Court of Appeals FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT ___________ No. 98-1945 ___________ Virginia M. Locke; William G. Locke, * * Appellants, * * v. * * Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., * * Appellee. * __________ No. 98-2138 __________ Virginia M. Locke; William G. Locke, * Appeals from the United States * District Court for the Western Appellees, * District of Missouri. * v. * [UNPUBLISHED] * Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., * * Appellant. * __________ No. 98-3064 __________ Virginia M. Locke; William G. Locke, * * Appellants, * * v. * * Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., * * Appellee. * __________ No. 98-3119 __________ Virginia M. Locke; William G. Locke, * * Appellees, * * v. * * Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., * * Appellant. * ___________ Submitted: June 14, 1999 Filed: June 21, 1999 ___________ Before BOWMAN, HEANEY, and FAGG, Circuit Judges. ___________ PER CURIAM.

Virginia M. Locke and William G. Locke appeal the district court's grant of Wal- Mart Stores, Inc.'s (Wal-Mart) motion for judgment as a matter of law in the Lockes'

-2- action to recover for personal injuries and loss of consortium arising from a fall when Virginia Locke was a patron at a Wal-Mart store. We review the grant of a motion for judgment as a matter of law under a well-established standard. After careful review of the record and the parties' submissions, we conclude the district court correctly granted judgment in Wal-Mart's favor. We also conclude a comprehensive opinion in this diversity case would lack precedential value. We thus affirm the district court's ruling without further discussion. Having ruled in Wal-Mart's favor, we need not consider the Lockes' contention that the district court improperly entered a conditional order for a new trial or Wal-Mart's cross-appeal. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

A true copy.

Attest: CLERK, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, EIGHTH CIRCUIT.

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