Maguire v. William Filene's Sons Co.

Exceptions overruled. In this action of tort the plaintiff excepted to the direction of a verdict for the defendant. It could be found that in the late afternoon of January 28, 1956, the plaintiff was a customer in the defendant’s store in Belmont and while leaving from a rear vestibule leading to a parking lot slipped on a wet paper bag, fell and was injured. She testified that the bag was “dirty” and “grayish” and that she noticed that where she had “skidded” it was dry and the rest of it (presumably *777the vestibule) was wet. The evidence was insufficient to warrant a finding that the bag had…