Mercadel v. Winn Dixie Louisiana, Inc.

SCHOTT, Judge.

Plaintiff has appealed from a dismissal of her suit for damages resulting from a slip and fall in defendant’s supermarket. The issue is whether the defendant breached any duty so as to make itself liable to plaintiff under circumstances where the foreign substance on which plaintiff slipped had been spilled only moments before her accident.

Plaintiff had completed her shopping and was in the checkout line when she realized she had forgotten to get sugar. She left the line to get the sugar and upon her return slipped on some bleach.

This bleach had just leaked from another…