In the case of Primrose v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc 127 So.3d 13 (2013), defendant, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has been sued for negligence and damages from plaintiff, Sandra Primrose. On September 8, 2009, the plaintiff, a 73 year-old female customer, tripped on the corner of a watermelon display stand in one of the companies stores in Minden, Louisiana. She suffered a concussion and other serious injuries. A perfect example of a trip and fall case, the Louisiana Merchant Liability Statue states, “The owner or custodian of a thing is answerable for damage occasioned by its ruin, vice, or defect, only upon a showing that he knew or, in the exercise of reasonable care, should have known of the ruin, vice, or defect which caused the damage, that the damage
