Little v. Borman Food Stores, Inc.

On March 2, 1968, the plaintiff, Dorothy Little, went to one of the defendant’s supermarkets to return a defective jar of peanut butter. She parked her car in the store’s parking lot and entered the store. Once within the store she was told by an unidentified woman that a tire on her car was going flat. Mrs. Little then went to the parking lot to observe her car. Upon returning to the store she slipped and fell in the store’s entranceway.

Mrs. Little testified that she had not observed any ice before she fell. She stated that she knew she had slipped on ice because she felt it when she…