Hill Grocery Co. v. Wilson

STAKELY, Justice.

On December 27, 1952, Virginia V. Wilson (appellee) went into the store of the defendant, Hill Grocery Company, a corporation (appellant), located on Fourth Avenue at Eighteenth Street in the City of Bessemer for the purpose of making a purchase. It is claimed that as she was walking down one of the aisles in the store to the counter where the articles she desired to purchase were kept, she slipped and fell, sustaining a fractured wrist and other injuries.

Testimony for the appellee tended to show that at the point where she fell, the floor was wet and there were bits of…