Corcoran v. United Markets, Inc.

The evidence warranted a finding of the following facts. The plaintiff, with her husband, purchased food at the defendant’s market in Cambridge. In leaving, she slipped on a step and fell, sustaining personal injuries. The step was of metal with a rough diamond shaped diagram upon it raised about an eighth of an inch. But in the middle of the step for about thirty inches it was “all worn down” and was “all bare, just as smooth as glass,” looking “very smooth and very shiny.” In the middle “the entire diagram that apparently was in it was gone.” The step was “a highly polished, smooth step,”…