Colclough v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company

Defendant was not an insurer of plaintiff’s safety while she was on its premises. Smithson v. Grant Co., 269 N.C. 575, 153 S.E. 2d 68. Defendant did owe to the plaintiff, as it did to all of its invitee customers, the duty to exercise ordinary care to keep its premises and the facilities which it furnished for their use in reasonably safe condition. Included in this duty was the obligation to exercise ordinary care in making such inspections as might be reasonably required to ascertain that the premises and facilities were being maintained in reasonably safe condition. Included also was the…