Mahoney v. JC Penney Company

CHAVEZ, Justice.

Plaintiffs-appellants, Robert Mahoney and Betty Mahoney, his wife, filed suit in two causes of action against defendantappellee, J. C. Penney Company, for damages resulting from injuries to Betty Ma-honey, sustained from a fall in defendant’s store. The complaint alleged that the fall resulted from the negligent acts or omissions on the part of defendant, in that it maintained a stairway in its Roswell store for the use of business invitees; that on the occasion in question it failed to keep the same reasonably clean and failed to maintain the same in a safe condition; that…