Legal Opinion
Roberts v. K-Mart Foods, Inc.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided July 30, 1971No. 17666PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BATEMAN, Justice.
The appellants sued for damages because of injuries sustained by Mrs. Roberts when she slipped on a green bean on the floor and fell in appellee’s grocery store. The jury did not find either appellee or Mrs. Roberts guilty of negligence and found that the occurrence was the result of an unavoidable accident. Judgment was given appellee on this verdict, and appellants appeal on seventeen points of error.
The first six of these are concerned with Special Issue No. 8, which inquired about unavoidable accident. Appel-lee had alleged that the accident in question was the result of…
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