Hill v. Allied Supermarkets, Inc.

PARKER, Judge.

That a store proprietor is not an insurer of the safety of customers on his premises and that liability for injury suffered by a customer in his store attaches only for such injuries as result from actionable negligence on his part “is a principle of the law of negligence so familiar and so firmly established as almost to obviate the necessity of citing supporting authority.” Long v. Food Stores, 262 N.C. 57, 59, 136 S.E. 2d 275, 277 (1964); see Annot., 62 A.L.R. 2d 6 (1958). The proprietor does owe to his customers the duty to exercise ordinary care to maintain in a reasonably…