Carrell v. Williams

OPINION

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by defendants from a judgment for plaintiff in a slip and fall case.

Plaintiff Williams sued defendants Harbin and Carrell, owners of a parking lot adjoining a shopping center, for damages for personal injuries sustained by her, when she slipped and fell on a sloping asphalt surface, which leads from the sidewalk down to the area where she had parked her car. Plaintiff testified she slipped on a spot of oil or grease on the slope, and was not certain whether the steepness of the slope or the oil or grease, or both, caused her to fall.

Trial was…