Food Lion, Inc. v. Johnson

Pope, Chief Judge.

Defendant Food Lion, Inc. appeals from the denial of its motion for directed verdict in this slip and fall case.

The evidence adduced at trial reveals that as plaintiff walked from her car toward defendant’s store, she noticed a man off to her left, approximately 15 feet from the store entrance, watering flowers. She saw “little trinklets” of water on the sidewalk but no standing puddles or streams of water. Although she did not walk through any water, she acknowledged that parts of the sidewalk and parking lot, across which she walked, were “slightly damp.” As plaintiff…