Ennis v. Peterson

PEDEN, Justice.

Appellant broke her hip when she tripped and fell at the threshold of a door as she was leaving her doctor’s offices. She appeals from the trial court’s having withdrawn the case from the jury and from its judgment that she recover nothing.

Appellant’s first point of error is overlapped by her second point, which states tat that since she had established that Dr. Peterson’s floor was defective where she fell, that the defect had existed for a long time and that it was not readily apparent to her (a business invitee), the trial court erred in withdrawing the case from the jury…