SS Kresge Company v. Blount

Banke, Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of the defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a “slip-and-fall” case.

The plaintiff alleges in her complaint that her fall was caused “by the slippery conditions of defendant’s floor resulting from it being highly waxed, or some unknown substance being allowed to remain on the floor.” The defendant supported its motion for summary judgment with the affidavit of the assistant store manager to whom the plaintiff reported her injury. This witness stated that she had examined the area where the plaintiff claimed to have fallen and…