Hisey v. Cashway Supermarkets, Inc.

OPINION

NOBLE, Justice.

B. L. Hisey, plaintiff below, sought recovery of damages for personal injury caused by the malfunctioning of an automatic electric door maintained by defendant, Cashway Supermarkets, Inc. Hisey has appealed from a directed verdict for defendant.

Plaintiff, a customer at Cashway Supermarkets, was leaving the store with a bag of groceries, and stepped on the mat which activated an electrically operated exit door. When he was only partly through, the door suddenly “slammed” shut, causing its hand-bar to strike the hand with which plaintiff was holding the bag of groceries.…