Cooper v. Brookshire Grocery Co.

CHADICK, Chief Justice.

This is a slip and fall case. Mrs. Mary Lou Cooper brought suit for personal injuries sustained when she fell in a store operated by Brookshire Grocery Company. A jury decided the special issues submitted but the trial judge disregarded the jury’s findings on some issues and entered a take nothing judgment. Mrs. Cooper has appealed.

In response to the special issues submitted the jury found that strawberries on the floor of the Brookshire Store constituted a dangerous condition; that by exercise of reasonable care, the store operator should have known of such condition;…