BOUTTE v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

No. 94-CA-968.

655 So.2d 372 (1995)

Bonnie Payne Boutte, Wife of/and Lee Allen BOUTTE v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

April 12, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry T. Hardin, III, Mendoza & Hardin, Harvey, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Roy C. Berard, Geoffrey J. Orr, Campbell, McCranie, Sistrunk, Anzelmo & Hardy, Metairie, for defendant-appellant.

Before KLIEBERT, DUFRESNE and CANNELLA, JJ.


KLIEBERT, Chief Judge.

Defendant, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., appeals from a judgment awarding plaintiff, Lee Allen Boutte, $3,171.00 plus all costs for damages sustained when plaintiff slipped and fell in defendant's store. We reverse.

On April 3, 1992, Boutte entered defendant's store in Harvey, Louisiana to purchase a seal beam for his car. On his way to check out the item, Boutte slipped on some pieces of a hot dog and fell to the floor. Plaintiffs, Lee Allen...

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