Legal Opinion

Walgreen Texas Co. v. Shivers

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided August 8, 1939No. 3446Published

1Opinion

On the evidence in this case — the evidence was without dispute on all controlling points — did there arise against appellant the inference of negligence as the proximate cause of Mrs. Shivers' injury? Mr. Justice O'QUINN has prepared the opinion of the court answering this question in the affirmative.

On the undisputed facts, it must be said that the construction of the platform and the stools was open and obvious to all who had occasion to use them, and that Mrs. Shivers had used the platform, and at least one of the stools, prior to the time she was injured It must also be conceded that…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. BighamTexas Supreme Court · 1896
  2. City of Dallas v. MaxwellTexas Commission of Appeals · 1923
  3. Marshall v. San Jacinto Bldg., Inc.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1933
  4. Main v. LehmanSupreme Court of Missouri · 1922
  5. Vaissiere v. J. B. Pound Hotel Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1937

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