Wiley v. J. Weingarten, Inc.

AYRES, Judge.

This is an action in tort wherein plaintiff, Mrs. Cynthia Frances Wiley, sought to recover from the defendant, J. Weingarten, Inc., damages allegedly sustained by plaintiff when she slipped and fell on the floor of defendant’s supermarket. This accident was precipitated by the presence of Wesson Oil on the floor of the supermarket occasioned by the breakage of two bottles of the oil dropped by another of the store’s customers.

This case was tried and decided by Judge Eugene B. Middleton, Jr., late of the First Judicial District Court in and for Caddo Parish. Predicated upon a…