Furtado v. Emerson Rug Co.

Exceptions overruled. In this action of tort for negligence the upon plaintiff, a business invitee of the defendant, while walking along a carpeted four foot aisle formed by display racks on one side and a long table on the other, with her attention directed to a roll of carpeting at the top of the wall ahead of her, tripped and fell over an irregular pile of five or six rug samples, two by three feet in size, which several minutes before had been removed by one of the defendant’s salesmen from the table and placed in the aisle for examination by other customers, who, with the salesman, had…