Lowe's lawyers file reponse to suit

A law firm representing Lowe’s Market in Tucumcari filed a response to a Quay County woman’s lawsuit against the grocery store after she alleged a faulty carpet caused a fall that injured her nearly three years ago.

Hugh Lyle, an attorney for the Mullin Hoard and Brown firm in Lubbock, Texas, on behalf of Pay and Save, dba Lowe’s Market, filed the four-page response Sept. 17 in Quay County court and requested the lawsuit’s dismissal.

Lyle’s filing denies or claims insufficient information of many of the allegations by Georgia Griego, who stated in an Aug. 19 complaint she tripped in November 2018 on a section of loose and uneven carpet in the store’s frozen foods section, causing her to fall forward. She stated she struck her face on a freezer door, causing “severe” injuries to her face, head and body.

Griego claims the store knew or should have known about the defect in the carpet, and it was foreseeable a customer walking through the aisle would not notice it.

Lyle issued nine affirmative defenses against Griego’s suit, including negligence by the plaintiff herself.

Griego is represented by the Dathan Weems Law Firm of Albuquerque. An office manager for Dathan Weems stated in an email last month it would have to speak to Griego before commenting.

An email last month to Lowe’s corporate office in Texas, requesting comment about the lawsuit, was not answered.

Lowe’s Markets, founded in 1964 in Olton, Texas, is based in Littlefield, Texas. It has 140 stores in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Arizona and Kansas.