Williamson v. F. W. Woolworth Co.

Billy P. Williamson sued F. W. Woolworth Company to recover damages for personal injuries sustained when he allegedly slipped on a banana peeling and fell in the store of the defendant in the city of Jackson. At the close of the evidence for the plaintiff, the court granted a directed verdict and judgment for the defendant; and Williamson appealed.

Williamson, who was 52 years of age and a carpenter by trade, testified that he went into the store between 1:30 and 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon of October 31, 1957, to buy Coping Saw Blades. After making the purchase, as he was walking along an…