Smith v. Hartman

Opinion by

Henderson, J.,

The appellant, Margaret Smith, one of the plaintiffs in the action, was injured on the 12th of December, 1918, in a store kept by the firm of Charley Brothers. She was there making some purchases about one o’clock in the afternoon when a structure composed of shelves, erected on the west side of the building and covering a space about 75 feet long on which merchandise of various kinds in tins, boxes, bottles and cartons was kept, toppled over. The shelves were supported by a base of considerably greater width which had the height of an ordinary store counter. A molding…