Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. v. Mazzie

Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., appeals a final judgment rendered in favor of Janet and Jerry Mazzie following a jury verdict awarding damages for a slip and fall in the deli department of one of Winn-Dixie’s food stores.

Janet Mazzie walked to the deli department to buy some pepperoni, but upon seeing a Winn-Dixie employee kneeling in front of the refrigerated case containing the item, she decided to do some other shopping first. She then walked to the meat department in another area of the store and obtained a selection. Because she was talking to a butcher in the meat department, it was, according…