HE Butt Grocery Company v. Quick

BARROW, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered on a jury verdict whereby appellees, Effie Quick and husband, B. B. Quick, recovered the sum of $12,500.00 for damages sustained by Mrs. Quick in a fall on the premises of appellant, H. E. Butt Grocery Company’s Store No. 15 in San Antonio, Texas. We heretofore affirmed an order overruling appellant’s plea of privilege. See Tex.Civ.App., 396 S.W.2d 541 (1965, no writ).

The case is somewhat different from the usual “slip and fall” case in that Mrs. Quick does not assert that the fall resulted from any foreign substance on the…