Goodis v. Gimbel Bros.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Musmanno,

Mrs. Sylvia Goodis sued Gimbel Brothers in trespass averring that, as a result of their negligence in maintaining a certain room in their store, she was injured. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant and the plaintiff seeks a new trial.

At the trial Mrs. Goodis testified' that when she rose from a desk at which she had been working in the women’s clubroom in Gimbel’s, her foot, entangled in an open seam in the carpet underfoot and she was thrown to the floor. She said that the rent in the carpet measured 1% inches in width and 2% inches in length. The…