Maury v. City Stores Co., 68--380
| Decision Date | 22 October 1968 |
| Docket Number | No. 68--380,68--380 |
| Citation | 214 So.2d 776 |
| Parties | Dulce MAURY and Albert Maury, Appellants, v. CITY STORES COMPANY, Appellee. |
| Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Leonard L. Levenstein, Jon W. Burke, Miami, for appellants.
Dean, Adams, George & Wood, Miami, for appellee.
Before CHARLES CARROLL, C.J., and PEARSON and BARKDULL, JJ.
Mr. and Mrs. Maury appeal from a summary final judgment for the appellee in an action for personal injuries sustained by Mrs. Maury in the appellee's store.
The general rule is that the issue of negligence is to be determined by the jury rather than the judge. Strickland v. Bradford County Hospital Corp., Fla.App.1967, 196 So.2d 765. The only question, then, is whether the uncontroverted statements made by Mrs. Maury in her deposition establish without any genuine issue of material fact that her injury was not caused by any negligence of the appellee. Viewed in the light most favorable to Mrs. Maury, her deposition establishes the following facts. On the day of the injury she was a business invitee in the bedding department of the appellee's store examining beds consisting of mattresses placed on metal frames. The beds were displayed in a long row adjacent to an aisle. As Mrs. Maury walked down the aisle examining the mattresses, she came to what she believed was an open space and turned in. Her leg then struck a metal bed frame ten to twelve inches high on which there was no mattress. She fell and suffered fractures of her arm and other injuries. She walked into the frame because she did not see a mattress on it; it was the only bed frame without a mattress. The frame did not project into the aisle; rather, it was approximately one foot behind the line established by the rest of the bedding equipment. The color of the frame contrasted with the color of the floor. The area was well lighted.
The appellants rely upon Carter v. Parker, Fla.App.1966, 183 So.2d 3, and Shell's Super Store, Inc. v. Parker, Fla.App.1958, 103 So.2d 884, for reversal. In Carter v. Parker the plaintiff wife tripped over the leg of the chair in a cocktail lounge. The plaintiffs alleged that the lounge was dimly lit, that the tables and chairs were crowded together, and that the chairs had extremely protruding legs. On these facts, the court reversed a summary final judgment for the defendant. We do not think that case is applicable because in the case at bar the area in which the injury occurred was well lighted, and the bed frame...
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