Rocco v. Boston-Leader, Inc.

In this action of tort the plaintiff testified that on September 9, 1955, she entered the defendant’s store; that while walking around looking at merchandise “her left foot slipped and twisted under her and she went down”; and that she “did not go all the way to the floor since her daughter-in-law had hold of her right arm and was supporting her.”

The plaintiff based her right of recovery on the fact that the floor was improperly waxed. The plaintiff’s daughter-in-law testified that the “floor was overwaxed and you could see a small indentation from a heel. . . . You could see your face in the…