Prunty v. Post Oak Bank

COULSON, Justice.

This is a “slip and fall” case.

Frances Prunty, plaintiff below and appellant here, slipped and fell in the lobby of the Post Oak Bank building on a clear August day in 1968. Her hipbone was broken by the fall and her later condition was complicated by infection resulting in osteoporosis. Mrs. Prunty brought suit against Post Oak Bank and Allied Maintenance Corporation of Texas, appellees here, to recover damages for her injuries resulting from the fall. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence the trial court granted Allied’s motion for an instructed verdict.

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