Legal Opinion

Smith v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided January 22, 1943No. 14472PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SPEER, Justice.

Appellant, Mrs. Vada Smith, a widow, has appealed from a judgment notwithstanding the jury verdict, entered by the court in favor of appellee, Safeway Stores, Incorporated.

Appellant’s allegations were sufficient to show that she entered appellee’s store as an invitee, and after she had been in the store fifteen or twenty minutes, doing her shopping, she stepped on a banana peel and fell, sustaining injuries for which she instituted this suit. That appellee’s store is conducted in such a way that customers select from convenient stock merchandise which they desire to purchase…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Wininger v. Ft. Worth & Denver City Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1912
  2. Myers v. CrenshawTexas Supreme Court · 1940
  3. Happ v. HappCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1942
  4. F. W. Woolworth Co. v. GoldstonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1941
  5. McCrory's Stores Corp. v. MurphyCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1942

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Houston National Bank v. AdairTexas Supreme Court · 1948
  2. Camp v. J. H. Kirkpatrick Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1952
  3. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company v. GilesCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1962
  4. Boucher v. Paramount-Richards TheatresLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1947
  5. O'NEAL v. J. Weingarten, Inc.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1959

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