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J. WEINGARTEN, INC. v. HOCHMAN

No. 15962.

487 S.W.2d 159 (1972)

J. WEINGARTEN, INC., Appellant, v. Eva HOCHMAN, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

Rehearing Denied November 16, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vinson, Elkins, Searls & Smith, Raybourne Thompson, Jr., Houston, for appellant.

Brown, Kronzer, Abraham, Watkins & Steely, Houston, Ernest H. Cannon, John M. O'Quinn, Houston, of counsel, for appellee.

COLEMAN, Justice.

This is a slip and fall case. After a trial to a jury, judgment was entered for the plaintiff in the sum of $57,554.96.

The jury found that plaintiff slipped in water; that the water was caused to be placed on the floor by employees of defendant; that such conduct was negligence and a proximate cause of the occurrence; that defendant should have known that the water was on the floor prior to the occurrence; that it failed to exercise ordinary...

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