H. E. B. Food Stores v. Slaughter

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This is a slip and fall case. The trial court overruled the defendant’s plea of privilege. The issue is whether plaintiffs have proved a cause of action against the defendant corporation to sustain venue under Subsections 9a and 23 of Article 1995.

This case was brought by the plaintiffs for personal injuries allegedly sustained by plaintiff’s wife when she slipped and fell in the defendant’s grocery store in Edin-burg, Hidalgo County, Texas. Plaintiffs alleged that on July 3, 1970 while the wife was shopping for groceries in the defendant’s store, she slipped and…