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J. C. PENNEY CO., INC. v. CHAVEZ

No. 1670.

618 S.W.2d 399 (1981)

J. C. PENNEY COMPANY, INC., Appellant, v. Rodolfo C. CHAVEZ, et ux., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Denied June 25, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Robert McKissick, Milton E. Lorenz, Jr., Kleberg, Dyer, Redford & Weil, Corpus Christi, for appellant.

William L. Morrow, Carinhas & Morrow, Brownsville, Edward F. Hensley, Jr., San Antonio, for appellees.

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This is a slip-and-fall case. The defendant, J. C. Penney Company, Inc., appeals from a judgment entered by the trial court which awarded plaintiff R. C. Chavez damages for injuries sustained when he slipped and fell on a banana peel in defendant's Brownsville store. Trial was to a jury and judgment was entered in accordance with the jury's several findings. The jury found that:

1) the banana peel had been on the floor...

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