Steinhorst v. H. C. Prange Co.

On August 28,1968, Miss Steinhorst, while walking in Prange’s store on a white vinyl floor in an aisle next to the men’s cosmetic counter, slipped and fell. She slipped on white shaving foam which came from an aerosol can on a self-serve men’s cosmetic counter. This counter displayed various brands of aerosol shaving foams; a companion counter displayed colognes and after-shaving lotions, including “testor bottles” which Prange encouraged the public to sample. Miss Steinhorst, who was seventy years of age, sustained a fracture of her right wrist and of both the tibia and fibula in her right…