Tebbetts v. Marquette Casualty Co.

AYRES, Judge.

This is an action in tort wherein plaintiff seeks to recover damages for injuries sustained when she slipped and fell while shopping in a grocery store. Made defendants were Shuler’s, Inc., owner and operator of the store, and its liability insurer; the Sanitary Dairy Products, Inc., furnisher of dairy products to the store, its liability insurer, and the insurer of its delivery trucks.

The defendants denied any negligence or fault on the part of anyone for whom they were responsible and, in the alternative, charged plaintiff with contributory negligence. In a further alternative,…