Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Smith, Jr.

LOHR, Justice.

We granted certiorari to review the decision of the Colorado Court of Appeals in Smith v. Safeway Stores, Inc., 636 P.2d 1310 (Colo.App.1981), which affirmed the judgment of the Denver District Court awarding damages to the plaintiff, Charles L. Smith, Jr., for injuries sustained when he slipped and fell in a store operated by the defendant, Safeway Stores, Inc. (Safeway). We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.

On November 7, 1978, the plaintiff was shopping in the defendant’s self-service grocery store. While walking down an aisle between two rows of counters stocked…