Ruth M. Burkley v. Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company

A woman shopper in the defendant’s supermarket in Columbia, South Carolina, was injured when she was run into and knocked down in the store lobby by a young boy as he rushed through the “In” door just as she was passing that door on the way to the immediately adjacent “Out” door. Her action against the defendant was predicated upon its alleged negligence in maintaining a lobby so narrow that it left her only about twenty-four inches passageway between the are of the door through which the boy ran and a couch, situated next to the check-out counter, which she would have been required to pass…