Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Harkless

SUMMERS, Chief Justice.

Appellees Violet Harkless and her husband brought this suit for damages against appellant Safeway Stores, Inc. (Safeway) and Victor R. Wallesch, its store manager, for injuries sustained by appellee Violet Harkless when she slipped and fell in Safeway’s grocery store in Henderson, Texas, on May 14, 1978.

Trial was had to a jury. The trial court rendered judgment against Safeway for the sum of $38,915.42 and a take-nothing judgment as to co-defendant Wallesch who was deceased prior to trial of this case.

Appellant Safeway timely made a motion for instructed verdict, a…