Camp v. J. H. Kirkpatrick Co.

POPE, Justice.

This is a slip and fall case and is an appeal by an invitee from an instructed verdict in favor of the defendant building owner, and concerns the nature of the duty the owner owed the invitee.

T. J. Camp was an employee for a dental clinic that officed on the second floor of the Kirkpatrick Building, situated in downtown San Antonio and owned by Kirkpatrick Company. On the morning of April 1, 1949, there had been a slow moderate rain for several hours. Camp on that morning attended to some personal business matters until about eleven o’clock and then went to the building. He got…