Barbara J. Jones v. T.G. & Y. Stores Company

OPINION

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

We are required to determine whether the district court was correct to apply principles of comparative fault in a Louisiana diversity case that involved a customer’s slip and fall accident in a commercial retail establishment. We affirm.

I

On November 25, 1981, plaintiff Barbara Jones was shopping with her husband and a friend in a T.G. & Y. store in Morgan City, Louisiana. Unobserved by her companions or anyone else, she stepped into an electrical outlet hole and fell to the floor. Mrs. Jones did not exhibit any signs of injury at the time. That…