Edwards v. F. W. Woolworth Co.

The plaintiff brought this action to recover for injuries suffered when she slipped and fell in a store of the defendant. She recovered a verdict which the trial court set aside, and from that ruling she has appealed. In the store was a lunch counter and also a counter where frankfurters were sold. When the plaintiff entered about noon there was a crowd about the lunch counter. The floor was littered with broken cookies, a piece of bread, a broken, dirty roll and the like. She turned to enter an aisle of the store, and when she was about five feet from the place where the frankfurters were…