Strout v. American Stores Co.

Opinion by

Me. Justice Musmanno,

What degree of care does a store owner owe the patrons of his establishment? This question was definitively answered with ample authority in the case of Vetter v. Great A. & P. Co., 322 Pa. 449, 454, where we said: “Mr. Justice Simpson, in Nettis v. Gen. Tire Co., 317 Pa. 204, 209, said: ‘All the authorities agree that it is incumbent upon the owner of premises upon which persons come by invitation, express or implied, to maintain such premises in a reasonably safe condition for the contemplated uses thereof and the purposes for which the invitation was extended…