PFIFFNER v. TOURO INFIRMARY

No. CA-8854.

529 So.2d 102 (1988)

Yevon N. PFIFFNER v. TOURO INFIRMARY.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Denied November 11, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blue, Williams & Buckley, George R. Blue, Jr., Metairie, for plaintiff.

Adams and Reese, Charles F. Gay, Jr., Lisa D. Newman, New Orleans, for defendant.

Before GULOTTA, C.J., and GARRISON and PLOTKIN, JJ.


GULOTTA, Chief Judge.

In this slip and fall case, plaintiff claims the jury erred in dismissing her suit where the evidence clearly established that she had fallen on a wet or slippery floor, thereby creating a presumption of negligence from which the defendant failed to exculpate itself. We affirm.

While we are apparently confronted with a burden of proof problem dealing with the application of the presumption of negligence, nonetheless this matter resolves...

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