HOUSTON — A customer who tripped and fell at a Sellers Bros Food Market in Houston is claiming negligence.
Jeanine Twine filed a complaint Dec. 15 in Harris County District Court against Sellers Bros Inc., alleging negligence and premises liability.
Twine, according to her complaint, was shopping at Sellers Bros Food Market on East Edgebrook Drive in Houston on March 20, 2021. She claims that as she was checking out and was called over to another register, she tripped over "an improperly placed hazardously placed bar."
Twine also claims she fell and landed on the ground and suffered injuries to her knee and hips. She alleges Sellers Bros created the unreasonably dangerous condition, failed to reduce or eliminate the hazard and failed to maintain and enforce its policies for inspecting the premises.
She also alleges Sellers Bros did not give adequate warning of the dangerous condition, hire competent employees to prevent, reduce or eliminate the hazard and did not terminate the employees who were incapable of locating and preventing the dangerous condition.
Twine seeks monetary relief of more than $1 million, interest and all other just relief. She is represented by Smaranda Draghia-Hobbs of Bush & Bush Law Group in Dallas.
Harris County District Court case number 2021-81574