Beard v. Henke & Pillot, Inc.

R. L. MURRAY, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered upon an instructed verdict in the district court of Jefferson County, in a slipping and falling case.

The appellant Beard sued the appellee, Henke & Pillot, Inc., and others, alleging that his wife suffered serious injuries when she slipped and fell on a grape on the floor of appellee’s supermarket on Eleventh Street in the City of Beaumont. During the trial, Beard dismissed his case against the other defendants. At the conclusion of the evidence introduced by the appellant, as plaintiff in the trial court, and before any…