J. C. Penney Co. v. Holmes

BATEMAN, Justice.

Cardell and Savannah Holmes, husband and wife, recovered a judgment based on a jury verdict against J. C. Penney Company, Inc., for $6,000 damages for personal injuries sustained by Savannah Holmes when she allegedly caught the heel of her shoe on a loose metal strip on one of the stairs in appellant’s store in McKinney, Texas and fell to the bottom of the stairs.

Facts

The stairway in question, beginning at the 'ground floor, consisted of three steps and a “landing” (which was the fourth step), at which there was a 90-degree turn to the left and from which the steps continued…