Pfeifers of Arkansas v. Rorex

Lee Seamster, Chief Justice.

The appellee, Mrs. Albert Rorex, brought this action against appellant, Pfeifers of Arkansas, to recover damages for physical injuries which she alleged she sustained as the result of a fall she suffered while a customer in appellant’s department store in Little Rock, Arkansas, on October 25, 1954.

The negligence alleged in this case was the failure on the part of the appellant to exercise ordinary care to maintain its premises in a reasonably safe condition in that appellant had knowledge of but carelessly and negligently failed to remove a slick substance from the…