H. F. Hohlt Co. v. Routt

■ Pursuant to a jury’s verdict on special issues, the defendants in error, Mr. and Mrs. Routt, between them, were awarded a total of $12,700 damages against the plaintiff in error, a private corporation of Brenham, Tex., as for its negligent failure to “use that degree of care which a person of ordinary prudence would have used under the same or similar circumstances-to keep the floors of its place of business in a reasonably safe condition for persons lawfully thereon as invitees,” which dereliction proximately caused Mrs. Routt, while in such capacity walking over them, to fall and receive…