Furr's, Inc. v. McCaslin

LANGDON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order overruling appellant’s plea of privilege in a “slip and fall” case.

This cause was brought by appellee, Roy A. McCaslin, against appellant, Furr’s Inc., a corporation, for personal injuries allegedly sustained by appellee’s wife when she slipped and fell in appellant’s grocery store. Appellant filed its plea of privilege to be sued in Lubbock County,-Texas, the county of its residence, and appellee duly controverted such plea, relying upon Subdivision 9a of Article 1995, Vernon’s Annotated Texas Civil Statutes, the “negligence” exception…