Powell v. DEIFELLS, INCORPORATED

The decisive question on this appeal is whether or not the court erred in granting the motion for nonsuit.

Store owners are not insurers of the safety of customers on their premises. Copeland v. Phthisic, 245 N.C. 580, 582, 96 S.E. 2d 697. And where a customer slips and falls in the aisle of a store .the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur has no application. Pratt v. Tea Co., 218 N.C. 732, 733, 12 S.E. 2d 242. But “those entering a store during business hours to purchase or look at goods do so at the implied invitation of the proprietor, upon whom the law imposes the duty of exercising ordinary…