Hecht Co., Inc. v. Jacobsen

BAZELON, Circuit Judge.

' This is an appeal from a judgment awarding damages to plaintiffs below because of defendant’s negligence. The episode out of which this suit arose occurred in appellant-defendant’s department store on November 15, 1945. At that time, Betty-Lynne Jacobsen (plaintiff-appellee), a four-year-old child, and her seven-year-old sister ■were accompanying their mother, who had seen shopping at appellant’s store. While Ihe three were descending from the third to the second floor on an escalator, Betty-Lynne broke away from her mother, who had allegedly been holding the child’s…