Terrell v. Warehouse Groceries

This is an appeal by Inez and Charles Terrell, plaintiffs below, from a directed verdict in defendants' favor as to Mrs. Terrell's claim for personal injuries sustained when she slipped and fell from tracked-in rain water in defendants' grocery store, and as to her husband's claim for loss of consortium resulting therefrom.

Mrs. Terrell went to defendants' store between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. on May 14, 1976, to buy groceries and to carry a sandwich to her daughter, Teresa Norton, who was then an employee of the store. Mrs. Terrell testified that it had been raining two and a half hours before she…