Yuma Furniture Company v. Rehwinkel

DONOFRIO, Judge.

This is a personal injury case arising out of a fall which took place on the premises of the Yuma Furniture Company store. Defendant store (appellant) is appealing from the judgment entered on the verdict, and from the order denying defendant’s motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, and for a new trial.

On April 18, 1965, the plaintiff, (appellee) Mrs. Rehwinkel, a sixty-eight-year-old retired secretary, her widowed sister, aged 72, and a friend, aged 80, went to the furniture store to look at a large used couch which had been advertised for sale. Upon entering the…