Crow v. Levine

SPEER, Justice.

E. D. Crow and his wife, Janey Crow, sued William Levine and Morris Levine, a partnership, doing business as Levine’s Department Store, for injuries alleged to have been sustained by Mrs. Crow when she fell on the floor of the store building.

The petition charged defendants with negligence, proximately causing her injuries, by the use of oil or other slick and slippery substance on the floor, and further because the building was insufficiently lighted.

Defendant answered by general denial and special pleas of contributory negligence, charging that Mrs. Crow did not observe where…