Royer v. Najarian

These are actions of the case brought by a wife and husband to recover the damages to them respectively, resulting from personal injuries which she suffered and which are alleged to have been caused by negligence on the part of the defendants. She had been shopping in a department store operated by the defendants on the easterly side of Main street in the city of Woonsocket and received her injuries, as she was leaving the store, by falling in the vestibule of one of the entrances.

These cases were tried together before a jury in the superior court, and at the end of evidence for the…