Ewing v. Russell

Plaintiff, a private secretary, brought this action to recover damages from her employer's lessors for personal injuries resulting from a fall. It was her claim defendants had negligently placed excessive wax on the floor making it dangerous to walk on, and failed to maintain it in a reasonable safe condition. Upon trial, the jury returned a verdict for defendants, and from a judgment thereon, plaintiff appealed. Defendants' answer denied placing excessive wax on the floor, alleged the wax applied was of a kind in common use, of safe quality and not such as to make the floor slippery or…