Green v. Walgreen Drug Company of Texas

McNEILL, Justice.

J. M. Green sued Walgreen Drug Company for damages alleging his wife slipped and fell in one of its drug stores at a time when Mrs. Green was shopping therein. The petition asserted that while Mrs. Green was walking in an aisle she stepped upon “an excessive amount of wax which was on the floor, or other slippery substance”, placed there by the Drug Company employees, causing her to fall and be injured. Trial was to a jury and upon its verdict, judgment was rendered for the Drug Company and Green appealed. The parties will be described here as they were in the trial court.

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