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JONES v. T.G. & Y. STORES CO.

No. 84-4719.

775 F.2d 663 (1985)

Barbara J. JONES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. T.G. & Y. STORES COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 2, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hunter & Plattsmier, Elwood C. Stevens, Jr., Morgan City, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Gibbens & Blackwell, J. Louis Gibbens, New Iberia, La., Pugh & Boudreaux, Charles J. Boudreaux, Jr., Lafayette, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before GOLDBERG, JOLLY, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 2, 1986.

OPINION

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

We are required to determine whether the district court was correct to apply principles of comparative fault in a Louisiana diversity case that involved a customer's slip and fall accident in a commercial retail establishment. We affirm.

I

On November 25, 1981, plaintiff Barbara Jones was shopping with her husband and a friend...

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