Atlantic Greyhound Corp. v. Newton

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal questions the correctness of the refusal of the District Judge to direct a verdict for the defendant in an action for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff .from a fall on the defendant’s premises. The defendant claimed that the plaintiff was injured while on the premises as a mere licensee and that the defendant owed him no duty which had been violated; but the District Judge overruled this contention and found a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $7,500.

J1 W. Newton was a driver for the Carolina Dry Cleaning Company in Raleigh, North Carolina, and…