Cuevas v. W.E. Walker, Inc.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered in favor of the defendant, W.E. Walker, Inc., doing business as Bill's Dollar Store. The plaintiff, Alice G. Cuevas, claims to have been injured in a slip and fall accident upon the defendant's premises as a result of defendant's negligence.

In the late afternoon of October 3, 1987, Mrs. Cuevas went shopping at the Bill's Dollar Store in Jackson, Alabama. She was accompanied by her adult ward, two minor children, Sandra Turner, and Turner's minor daughter. Plaintiff testified by deposition that she went to the store to look at shoes and to…