Grogan v. O'Keeffe's Inc.

This is an action of tort to recover damages for injuries sustained by a minor child four years of age when she fell through a trap door which had been left open by a servant of the defendant in the floor of a grocery store maintained by the defendant. The case was tried to a jury and there was a verdict for the plaintiff. It is the contention of the defendant that its motion for a directed verdict in its favor, filed at the close of all the evidence, should have been allowed; and that its requests (1) that upon all the evidence the jury should find that the plaintiff Katherine Grogan was a…