Richards v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

Stukes, Justice.

Respondent was shopping in the large retail store of the corporate appellant (the personal appellant was the store-manager) when she fell backward over boxes containing butter and cottage cheese, and received personal injuries for which she brought this action' for actual and punitive damages. The boxes had shortly before been delivered by Armour & Company and placed against the counter of the dairy products department, but in the aisle which customers used to approach the coffee counter. Respondent had already made several purchases in the store and had them in a pushcart,…