McGauley v. Piggly-Wiggly Southern, Inc.

Birdsong, Judge.

Patricia McGauley filed suit against Piggly-Wiggly for damages sustained when she entered the Piggly-Wiggly store on a very rainy day and fell as she attempted to step off a mat inside the door. She contends the mat was soaked through with water and that the store employees failed to change the mat as was their proper and usual procedure in such cases, so that water ran out onto the terrazzo floor, creating a slippery hazard, all of which the appellee knew or should have known. She stated that she herself did not see water on the floor. In her deposition, she testified that…