Sherwood v. Medical & Surgical Group, Inc.

WILSON, Justice.

The trial court withdrew this “slip and fall” case from the jury at the close of plaintiff’s evidence, and rendered judgment for defendant. Plaintiff says this was error because the evidence raised a jury issue. The real question is whether the evidence, under familiar rules, raised any of the pleaded alternative issues that defendant put the foreign substance on which plaintiff slipped on the floor; or knew that it was on the floor, negligently failing to remove it; or that it had been on the floor long enough that it should have been dis covered and removed in the exercise…