Berryman v. K Mart Corp.

Plaintiffs Darlene and Robert Berry-man appeal from the trial court’s grant of defendant’s motion for a directed verdict. We reverse.

On March 8, 1985, plaintiff Darlene Berryman slipped and fell in defendant’s Garden City store. After she fell, she noticed that the floor was wet and that the "wet streaky marks on the floor” were consistent with freshly mopped floors she had seen in the past. Two women, who had seen her fall, offered assistance. Mrs. Berryman failed to get the names of these women, and they had left by the time defendant’s employees investigated the fall. As a result, the…