FW Woolworth Company v. Peet

This malodorous case should have ended at the close of plaintiff’s evidence, because plaintiff wholly failed to meet the burden of proof to sustain the allegations of her complaint.

Defendant in error, as plaintiff, filed her complaint on April 20, 1953, seeking damages for personal injuries sustained by her on March 17, 1953, at the F. W. Woolworth Company store in Denver, Colorado. She alleged that while, as a customer, she was shopping in defendant’s store, she fell as the result of an unsafe and dangerous condition in which the floor was negligently kept and maintained; and particularly,…