Deagle v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

The plaintiff, a business invitee of the defendant, was awarded damages by a jury for injuries sustained by her in a fall in the defendant’s self-service store. The defendant excepted to the denial by the judge of its motion for a directed verdict and to certain portions of the judge’s charge.

The jury could have found the following facts. The plaintiff arrived at the store about 11 a.m. and, after shop ping in the store for twenty or twenty-five minutes, went to the front of the store and took her place third or fourth in a line of customers near a cash register where an employee of the…