Schmoll v. National Shirt Shops

Action for personal injury sustained by plaintiff in falling in the entrance lobby of defendant's store. A jury awarded $15,000 damages to plaintiff, and defendant has appealed from the ensuing judgment.

It was alleged in plaintiff's petition that she, a prospective customer at defendant's store, stepped into the lobby entranceway provided by defendant, and was caused to slip and fall by the negligently unsafe condition of the lobby floor; the floor was of "terrazzo with brass division bars in it"; there was lettering of a metallic substance embedded in the floor; the metal letters were…