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WESSON v. GILLESPIE

No. A-9855.

382 S.W.2d 921 (1964)

William B. WESSON, Petitioner, v. Dorothy GILLESPIE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied November 4, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ewing Clagett, Fillmore, Schaeffer & Fillmore, Wichita Falls, for petitioner.

Mock, Banner & McIntosh, Wichita Falls, for respondent.

GREENHILL, Justice.

This is a slip and fall case. The plaintiff, Mrs. Dorothy Gillespie, tripped over a threshold at night going out of the dimly lighted 8-Ball Lounge in Wichita Falls. She was a regular customer and had been in and out of its door and over the threshold at least 500 times. Trial was to a jury which found that the defendant negligently maintained the threshold and that this was a proximate cause of plaintiff's injury; that defendant did not fail to...

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