Case ID: so2d_325/html/0819-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "TATE, J., DIXON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Buford and Mateline DAUZAT v. KROGER COMPANY and Insurance Company of North America.
    No. 57413.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Feb. 6, 1976.
   In re: Buford and Mateline Dauzat, applying for certiorari, or writ of review, to the Court of Appeal, Third Circuit, Parish of Rapides, 323 So.2d 170.

Writ denied. The result is correct on the facts found by the Court of Appeal.

TATE, J.,

respectfully dissents. The ruling is contrary to Gonzales v. Winn-Dixie, 326 So.2d 486 (La.1976). The fall of a stack in a grocery store, in the absence of intervening superseding cause, is itself the result of store negligence, whether the hazard is visually apparent or not.

DIXON, J.,

dissents; when two cases of soft drinks fall on a customer’s head in a store, the store cannot escape liability merely by showing an inspection system.

CALOGERO, J., dissents.