Grand Union Supermarkets, Inc. v. Griffin

PEARSON, TILLMAN, Judge.

The defendant appeals a final judgment entered upon a jury verdict for the plaintiffs. It is urged that the court erred in failing to rule as a matter of law that under the facts of this case defendant-supermarket was not liable to plaintiff-customer who slipped and fell while shopping.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs, the evidence showed that the plaintiff-wife slipped and fell in the defendant’s store on a foreign substance upon the floor. The foreign substance could have been taken by the jury to have been a fruit pit to which a portion of the…