Smith v. NT Nails, LLC

MCFADDEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from the grant of summary judgment to the defendant in a slip-and-fall case. Cathy Smith filed a complaint seeking recovery for personal injuries allegedly sustained when she fell in a nail salon. The trial court granted the salon summary judgment because Smith knowingly and voluntarily chose to walk across the recently mopped floor. Smith appeals. Because the uncontroverted evidence shows that Smith and the salon’s staff had equal knowledge of the hazard created by mopping a floor and encountered by walking across it and because Smith voluntarily exposed…