Thornton v. Woodson

BERRY, Justice:

A customer, Opal V. Smith, was at the Nail Salon and allegedly stood up from her chair at the direction of an employee, caught her slacks’ cuff on a projecting part of the chair leg, and fell to the floor. Plaintiff, Opal Y. Smith, asserted the fall caused some injury. Plaintiff sued several defendants: Petitioner, operator of the Nail Salon; John F. Lawhon Furniture Company, domesticated corporate defendant, distributor of the chair [alleged to be negligently designed and built]; and Douglas Furniture Corporation, a non-domesticated foreign corporation, maker of the chair.…