Keith v. S. S. Kresge Co.

ARNOLD, Judge.

The record shows that plaintiff was a customer at defendants’ store at the time she was injured. While defendants are not insurers of the safety of their customers they do have a duty to exercise ordinary care to keep the premises in reasonably safe condition, and to give warning of unsafe conditions insofar as they are known or should be known by reasonable inspection. Routh v. Hudson-Belk Co., 263 N.C. 112, 139 S.E. 2d 1 (1964) ; Long v. Food Stores, 262 N.C. 57, 136 S.E. 2d 275 (1964) ; Mitchell v. K.W.D.S., Inc., 26 N.C. App. 409, 216 S.E. 2d 408 (1975).

Defendants’ position…