Kopfinger v. Grand Central Public Market

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment of non-suit rendered in an action growing out of a slip and fall resulting in serious personal injuries.

About noon on January 29, 1960, Theresa Kopfinger, then 76 years old, was walking on the public sidewalk on the east side of Hill Street in Los Angeles. She was proceeding toward the center aisle entrance of the Grand Central Public Market, where she was a regular customer, when she fell on the sidewalk in front of the north aisle, near one of the retail meat stalls operated by Melton. She slipped on some meat product, probably gristle, and there was a skid…