SMITH v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

No. COA97-524.

495 S.E.2d 149 (1998)

Wallace L. SMITH, Plaintiff, v. WAL-MART STORES, INC., Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

January 6, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dunn, Dunn, Stoller & Pittman, L.L.P. by Andrew D. Jones, New Bern, for defendant-appellant.

Jackson, Rivenbark & Slaughter by Bruce H. Jackson, Jr. and M. Troy Slaughter, Wilmington, for plaintiff-appellee.


WALKER, Judge.

Plaintiff filed this action on 5 April 1995 seeking damages for injuries sustained as a result of his fall in defendant's store in Wilmington, North Carolina. Defendant moved for summary judgment which was denied by the trial court.

At trial, the evidence tended to show that on the morning of 5 November 1993, plaintiff and his wife arrived at defendant's store around 11:00 a.m. Since it was raining, plaintiff dropped his wife off at the front...

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