Martinez v. HE Butt Grocery Company

BARROW, Justice.

This is a slip and fall case, and plaintiffs appealed from a talce-nothing judgment rendered upon the jury’s verdict that Mrs. Martinez’s fall was the result of an unavoidable accident. The jury did not find that either party committed any act of negligence. Damages were found in the amount of $1,800.00 as a result of the fall.

On July 11, 1960, Mrs. Martinez entered the H. E. B. grocery store in Laredo, Texas, to buy groceries, and after walking about ten feet slipped on some mayonnaise which had been dropped on the floor by another customer, Miss Willa Nickens. Miss Nickens…