Green v. Kimbell, Inc.
Court of Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JORDAN, Justice.
This is a “slip and fall” case in which the trial court directed a verdict for defendant at the close of plaintiffs’ evidence. Appellants, plaintiffs in the trial court, appeal on one point of error.
We reverse and remand.
On March 22, 1976, Jerry Dale Green accompanied by his brother, Steve, were in Buddies Supermarket in Graham, Texas, a store then owned by appellee, when Jerry slipped and fell on what was described by his brother as a film of dirty water running beside an ice machine and along the length of a produce rack, out into an aisle in the store. The evidence…
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