MERCADEL v. WINN DIXIE LOUISIANA, INC.

No. 12094.

399 So.2d 1317 (1981)

Consuella Mercadel, Wife of/and James MERCADEL v. WINN DIXIE LOUISIANA, INC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

June 2, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Peyton, Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

James C. Witcher, II, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Before BOUTALL, SCHOTT and BARRY, JJ.


SCHOTT, Judge.

Plaintiff has appealed from a dismissal of her suit for damages resulting from a slip and fall in defendant's supermarket. The issue is whether the defendant breached any duty so as to make itself liable to plaintiff under circumstances where the foreign substance on which plaintiff slipped had been spilled only moments before her accident.

Plaintiff had completed her shopping and was in the checkout line when she realized she had forgotten...

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