Graham v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Mona Graham appeals from a summary judgment in favor of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., on her claim for negligence. We affirm.

On May 8, 1985, Mona Graham and her children were in the pet department of the Wal-Mart store in Opelika looking at tropical fish. While Mrs. Graham was waiting for the attendant to retrieve one of the fish she intended to buy, she noticed that her two-year-old daughter was standing in front of a stacked display of "whirly-bird" turbine ventilators. The stacks of ventilators began falling toward her daughter; Mrs. Graham ran toward her, slipped, and fell, and fractured her…