Cox v. Goldstein

LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

The record shows an action on the case charging negligence resulting in personal injuries, brought by the appellant, Mrs. Thomas E. Cox, against appellees, Joe Goldstein and The New Williams, a corporation, operating a ladies’ ready-to-wear store in Birmingham, Alabama.

The complaint, in its one count, charges simple negligence in the maintenance of the floor of the entrance-way of defendants’ store in an unsafe condition for the use of customers entering the store, proximately resulting in plaintiff’s sustaining a fall while entering the store for the purpose of…