J. H. Harvey Co. v. Edwards

Blackburn, Judge.

Upon the grant of its application for discretionary appeal, J. H. Harvey Company appeals the trial court’s order denying its motion for summary judgment in the underlying slip and fall action.

While shopping for groceries, Alverna Edwards slipped and fell when she stepped on some green beans on the floor of a grocery store operated by J. H. Harvey Company (the store). Edwards and her husband1 sued the store for injuries she sustained in the fall claiming that the green beans on the floor were a hazardous condition which the store negligently allowed to exist, and that her…