Turner v. Servicemaster

SHORES, Justice.

The plaintiffs in this slip and fall case, Peggy J. Turner and her husband, Marvin Turner, appeal from a summary judgment for ServiceMaster Company, a limited partnership. Mrs. Turner sued for damages based on personal injuries she claims she sustained while on duty as a nurse at Huntsville Hospital. Marvin Turner claimed damages for loss of consortium.

On May 9, 1990, Mrs. Turner slipped and fell on the floor of a nurses’ station that had recently been mopped by Lily Mae Pulliam, who was also a Huntsville Hospital employee. Mrs. Turner sued Huntsville Hospital for workers’…