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J. C. PENNEY CO. v. HOLMES

No. 16320.

378 S.W.2d 105 (1964)

J. C. PENNEY CO., Inc., Appellant, v. Cardell HOLMES and Savannah Holmes, Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied April 17, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thompson, Knight, Wright & Simmons, Pinkney Grissom, Jerry P. Jones and John A. Gilliam, Dallas, for appellant.

Leachman, Gardere, Akin, Porter & DeHay, Edward E. Crowell, Jr., and Ralph Hartman, Dallas, for appellees.

BATEMAN, Justice.

Cardell and Savannah Holmes, husband and wife, recovered a judgment based on a jury verdict against J. C. Penney Company, Inc., for $6,000 damages for personal injuries sustained by Savannah Holmes when she allegedly caught the heel of her shoe on a loose metal strip on one of the stairs in appellant's store in McKinney, Texas and fell to the bottom of the stairs.

Facts

The stairway in question, beginning at the ground floor...

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