S. H. Kress Co. v. Jennings

COMBS, Justice.

This suit was filed in the Fifty-Eighth district court of Jefferson county, Tex., by ap-pellee, as plaintiff, against appellant, as defendant, seeking to recover damages for injuries to his right hand and right wrist alleged to have resulted from his- slipping and falling in the defendant’s store on or about December 11, 1930. A trial to a jury resulted in a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $12,500. Judgment was entered thereon, from which appellant has prosecuted this appeal.

Plaintiff’s suit, as made by his pleadings, is, in substance, that, on the occasion in question, he…