Contreras v. H. E. B. Grocery Co.

POPE, Justice.

The trial court granted a motion for summary judgment against Angel Contreras, who sued for damages sustained by him and his wife, Herlinda Contreras, when she slipped and fell on a ramp leading into the H. E. B. Grocery store on Commerce Street in San Antonio. Plaintiff relied solely upon his unsworn pleading of the facts. Defendant presented Mrs. Contreras’ deposition in which she swore that she had previously used the ramp, that the day she fell, she looked at and did see the ramp, that it had no cracks, holes, or objects upon it, that she knew it sloped and had no railing.

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