Camp v. Winn Dixie Stores, Inc.

Blackburn, Judge.

Joseph M. Camp appeals the trial court’s grant of Winn Dixie Stores, Inc.’s motion for summary judgment in the underlying rainy-day slip and fall case.

Camp testified in his deposition that it was raining as he entered the Winn Dixie. After he walked across the carpeted entry area, he slipped and fell on the wet floor. A Winn Dixie employee deposed that she had checked the floor two to three minutes prior to Camp’s fall, and that she saw no water on the floor.

“[I]t is common knowledge that during rainy weather some water will normally be present where shoppers enter a…