The Prudential Insurance Company of America v. Leola Wilkerson

Prudential has appealed from a judgment rendered on a jury verdict awarding Mrs. Wilkerson damages for personal injuries in a diversity suit.

A review of the record leads us to the conclusion that there was substantial evidence that Prudential had knowledge that rain water was being carried from the sidewalks and streets into a building owned and controlled by Prudential on the shoes and apparel of many persons entering the building and failed to exercise reasonable care to prevent a terrazzo floor in such building from becoming wet, slick, and dangerous from water deposited thereon (see Karen…