Wiggins v. Scruggs

MONTGOMERY, Chief Justice.

Georgia D. Wiggins, appellant, sued James M. Scruggs et al., appellees, owners of a supermarket, for damages resulting from a fall in the supermarket. She stepped in or on a foreign substance on the floor. The trial court directed a verdict for the appellees at the close of the plaintiff’s testimony. The apparent basis for the ruling was that the plaintiff had failed to show negligence on the part of the defendants, in that she had failed to show that the “shop keeper” knew or by the exercise of ordinary care could have known of the presence of the substance on the…