Judge Scott Stevens | txcourts.gov
TEXARKANA, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A Walmart customer failed to show why the retailer should be held liable for a slip-and-fall in one of its Texas stores, an appeals court at Texarkana recently ruled in an affirmation of a trial court’s decision.
In deposition testimony, customer Paul Clayton said that the slip-and-fall happened in the salad dressing aisle on his second trip down the aisle. He had returned there about an hour and fifteen minutes after the first trip to retrieve an item he had forgotten. He stated he did not notice the spill on the first trip, but the second time down the aisle he slipped on “[m]ayo on [the] floor” or “something white.”