WAL-MART STORES, INC. v. GONZALEZ

No. 97-1030.

968 S.W.2d 934 (1998)

WAL-MART STORES, INC., Petitioner, v. Flora L. GONZALEZ, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

May 8, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Preston Wrotenbery, Houston, for Petitioner.

Charles A. Nicholson, San Antonio, Respondent.


GONZALEZ, Justice, delivered the opinion of the Court, in which HECHT, ENOCH, OWEN and BAKER, Justices, joined.

The question in this slip-and-fall case is what quantum of circumstantial evidence is legally sufficient to support a finding that an unreasonably dangerous condition has existed long enough to charge a proprietor with constructive notice of the condition. The court of appeals held that there was legally sufficient evidence that some macaroni salad had existed...

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