Hardee's Food Systems, Inc. v. Green

Beasley, Judge.

After observing an employee at a Hardee’s restaurant put up a wet floor sign and mop the floor, Gena Green traversed the area she was aware had just been mopped and was still wet. She knew, from her work and from cleaning her own house, that a mopped floor would stay wet and water-slippery for a short time. She slipped and fell on what she described as being “water-wet” and “grease-slippery,” which left her side “completely soaked.” Ms. Green sued the proprietor, Hardee’s Food Systems, Inc. An interlocutory appeal brings for review the trial court’s denial of Hardee’s motion…