J. M. Mulligan's Grille, Inc. v. Aultman

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

This is what is commonly known in legal circles as a slip and fall case. The appellee, Yana L. Aultman, went to Mulligan’s Grille, owned by the appellant, to apply for a job as a waitress. The Grille had only been opened for about a month. After her interview, on her way out of the restaurant, she reached a place where a tile floor met a wooden stairway and slipped and fell. Her case was based solely on her testimony that the floor was slippery. She offered no proof that the materials used for the floor were defective or that there was a foreign substance on the…