Hagin v. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.

Pope, Judge.

On the evening of December 11, 1982, appellant Ruth Hagin entered the Winn-Dixie store in Conyers. She walked to an area opposite the door to get a shopping cart, and as she removed the cart from the stack, she slipped and fell. The record shows that she slipped in a puddle of clear water, and that it was misting rain when she entered the store. It had been raining most of the day. Appellee Winn-Dixie adduced affidavits of various employees on duty at the time of Hagin’s fall to show that the floor was inspected every twenty minutes to one hour on rainy days to check for…