Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Tinsley

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice CORNELIUS.

Rebecca Tinsley slipped and fell in a Wal-Mart store in Orange, Texas. Tinsley and her husband, Dan Tinsley, brought a negligence suit against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., and the jury awarded Ms. Tinsley damages in the amount of $430,000.00. Because the jury found Wal-Mart ninety percent negligent and Tinsley ten percent negligent, her damages were reduced to $387,000.00. The jury also awarded $5,000.00 in damages to her husband. Both were awarded prejudgment interest.

On September 11, 1993, Tinsley was shopping at a Wal-Mart store with her brother, Ron…