Parker Food Stores, Inc. v. Pierce

LANGDON, Justice.

This is a personal injury suit.

Appellee, a customer of appellant’s store, brought this suit for injuries sustained when he slipped on a purple ball point pen that was lying on the floor in the aisle of the store. The jury found that appellant’s employees did not drop the pen in the aisle and that appellant was not negligent in failing to discover and remove it. The only other liability issues submitted appellee’s theory that appellant “ * * * was negligent in having the floor of the store constructed of such dark material as to fail to properly illuminate or outline objects…