Hudson v. Buddie's Super Markets, Inc.

OPINION

BREWSTER, Justice.

This is a slip and fall case, the plaintiffs, Mr. and Mrs. Hudson, having alleged that Mrs. Hudson stepped into a small spot of water on the floor of defendant’s store while she was shopping for groceries and that she was thereby caused to fall and hurt herself. She alleged that her fall was proximately caused by the negligence of the employees of the defendant, Buddie’s Super Markets, Inc.

The defendant pleaded a general denial, several special denials, the volenti doctrine, that the alleged dangerous condition was so open and obvious that defendant owed no duty to…