Smith v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

ENOCH, Chief Judge.

Defendant, Safeway Stores, Inc., appeals a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff, Charles L. Smith, for $9,000. in damages incurred by plaintiff as a result of a slip-and-fall accident in one of defendant’s self-service supermarkets. We affirm.

On November 7,1978, plaintiff was shopping in defendant’s store, and while walking down an aisle between two rows of counters stocked with merchandise, plaintiff slipped and fell. He slipped on a substance on the floor which was described as looking like hand lotion.

Plaintiff did not present any evidence that the…