MAAS BROS., INC. v. BISHOP

No. 7446.

204 So.2d 16 (1967)

MAAS BROS., INC., a Corporation, Appellant, v. E. Merwin BISHOP and Lake Wales Bank & Trust, As Executor of the Estate of Jean L. Bishop, Deceased, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

Rehearing Denied November 30, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Bush, of Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, Tampa, for appellant.

James M. McEwen, of Gibbons, Tucker, McEwen, Smith & Cofer, Tampa, for appellees.


SHANNON, Judge.

Maas Bros., Inc., defendant below, appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding damages to E. Merwin Bishop and Lake Wales Bank & Trust in a suit arising out of a fall sustained by Mr. Bishop's deceased wife. (Her death was in no way caused by the fall.) Mrs. Bishop allegedly fell when she slipped on a step in appellant's Tampa store, more specifically on a checkered metal strip which had become slick with wear.

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