Beach v. Woodward & Lothrop, Inc.

Agnes M. Beach filed suit in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County against Woodward & Lothrop, Inc., claiming damages for injuries she alleged she sustained in a fall on an escalator in the defendant’s department store.

The case went to trial before a jury and ended at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence when the trial judge granted the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict.

Mrs. Beach appealed from the judgment thereafter entered against her. She complains that the court did not apply the proper principles of law in ruling on the motion, and that a previous interlocutory ruling on her…