Dalgleish v. Oppenheim, Collins & Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

At the time in question, the defendant corporation, Oppenheim, Collins & Company, were proprietors of a store in Pittsburgh, the rear of which contained a retail shoe department. On the afternoon of December 20, 1928, the original plaintiff, Catherine L. Dalgleish, seventy years of age, entered the store to buy a pair of galoshes and, while walking along an aisle to reach that department, fell and was seriously injured. The mere fact that plaintiff fell and was hurt while in defendant’s store, without more, would not render it liable therefor: Gorman v. Brahm’s…