Ruth Hetzel v. Jewel Companies, Inc.

SWYGERT, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict in favor of the defendant in a diversity suit for damages for personal injuries allegedly sustained as a result of plaintiff’s slipping on an unknown liquid on the floor and falling in one of defendant’s supermarkets. The principal issue raised in this appeal is whether the trial judge properly instructed the jury as to the applicable Indiana law.

The facts upon which this action was predicated are as follows. On the afternoon of September 4, 1967, the plaintiff entered a supermarket operated by the defendant in…