Richardson v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

OPINION

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment notwithstanding the verdict. After the jury awarded Whlimenia Richardson $75,150.00 damages in her slip-and-fali/negligence cause of action, the trial court granted Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. Richardson appeals and requests that we reinstate the jury’s verdict. We affirm the judgment.

On September 25, 1994, while Richardson was in a Wal-Mart store, she slipped and fell on a puddle of Spray ⅛ Wash on the store’s floor. She did not see the puddle before her fall. Afterwards, she spoke…