Opinion ID: 2188334
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Heading: loving's slip and fall

Text: While Timothy Jones, a Baker's employee, was carrying out groceries for a supermarket patron, he dropped some glass bottles of beer on the floor near the supermarket's checkout area. To clean up the beer and broken bottles, Jones got a mop, bucket, and two yellow signs with the inscription caution wet floor. Jones put one caution sign in the center of the spill and the other at the edge of the spill. In leaving the store, several customers walked around Jones at the spill area. Meanwhile, Loving and her sister, Tomi Thomas, purchased groceries at a cash register in the express lane near the spill area. After Loving and her sister left the express lane cash register, they saw Jones standing with his back to Loving and Thomas. As the sisters passed Jones, Loving twisted her right ankle and fell onto her knee in a big puddle which Loving had not seen until she was in it. Loving then looked back at Jones, who she discovered was mopping, and saw a warning sign. According to Jones, however, he was holding the mop and facing Loving and Thomas as the two women approached the spill area. He moved aside to allow the pair to walk through the area, which he believed to be free from any residue of the dropped bottles. Shortly after this incident, while she was still at the supermarket, Loving gave Baker's store manager her name, telephone number, and an account of the accident. From the information supplied by Loving, the manager prepared one of Baker's public liability claim forms concerning Loving's accident. Loving subsequently underwent surgery for a chondral fracture of her left patella.