J. C. PENNEY COMPANY v. BARRIENTEZ

No. 40724.

411 P.2d 841 (1965)

J. C. PENNEY COMPANY, a Corporation, and Charles Truhitte, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Mary BARRIENTEZ, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied January 4, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Monnet, Hayes, Bullis, Grubb & Thompson, by Glen H. Grubb, Oklahoma City, for plaintiffs in error.

Lampkin, Wolfe & Blankenship, by Raymond Burger, Oklahoma City, for defendant in error.


BLACKBIRD, Justice.

This is an appeal in one of a category of cases now commonly called "slip and fall" cases. The fall in this case occurred about 7:00 P.M., on October 6th, 1960, when defendant in error (hereinafter referred to as plaintiff) while walking down the stairway between the street floor, or "street-level" floor, and the second floor of the department store then operated...

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