Green v. Walgreen Drug Company of Texas

368 S.W.2d 688 (1963)

J. M. GREEN, Appellant,

v.

WALGREEN DRUG COMPANY OF TEXAS, Appellee.

No. 6487.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

May 30, 1963.

Rehearing Denied June 19, 1963.

D. F. Sanders, Beaumont, for appellant.

King, Sharfstein & Rienstra, Beaumont, for appellee.

McNEILL, Justice.

J. M. Green sued Walgreen Drug Company for damages alleging his wife slipped and fell in one of its drug stores at a time when Mrs. Green was shopping therein. The petition asserted that while Mrs. Green was walking in an aisle she stepped upon "an excessive amount of wax which was on the floor, or other…