Legal Opinion
Thrift v. Food Lion, Inc.
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
Decided September 7, 1993No. 9221SC640PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*760WYNN, Judge.
On Saturday 18 June 1988 at approximately 2:00 or 2:30 p.m., the plaintiff, Marie Thrift, entered a Food Lion grocery store [hereinafter Food Lion] on Waughtown Street in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to shop for groceries. Prior to Ms. Thrift’s entering the store, Food Lion had received an ice delivery from Triangle Ice Co., Inc. [hereinafter Triangle Ice]. A Food Lion employee, Sue Payne, had supervised the delivery, counting off bags of ice as a Triangle Ice employee loaded them into the ice bin, which was located against an interior wall a few feet away from the front entrance…
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