Williams v. Holland

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in favor of plaintiffs pursuant to a jury verdict in a personal injury suit arising out of a so-called slip and fall accident.

The incident giving rise to this action occurred at Jacksonville Beach,. Florida, several days following the height of a hurricane. At the time of the accident, it was “misty” and had been raining for the preceding day or two during the storm. The scene of the fall was the vestibule-like entrance to a hardware store where the appellant, Mrs. Holland, had gone to make some purchases of supplies needed because of the hurricane.

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