Barge v. Melvin Carmichael Enterprises, Inc.

Eldridge, Judge.

On June 4, 1998, at approximately 11:40 a.m., Betty Rose Barge slipped and fell on some ham salad that had been spilled on the floor *726of aisle seven of Zack’s Discount Foods1 when a customer apparently dropped a plastic ham salad container in the aisle on the way to the checkout counter; picked up the cracked container, leaving ham salad on the floor; returned the cracked container to the refrigerated foods section, burying it under other containers; picked up an unscathed container of ham salad; and checked out of the grocery store without informing anyone what had happened.…