Lewis v. W. T. Grant Co.

WATKINS, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a married woman, 63 years of age, was very seriously injured when she slipped and fell while walking in the store of W. T. Grant Company at Huntington, W. Va., to which she had come as a customer to purchase merchandise. Plaintiff produced evidence to show that on the morning of the accident, just before the store opened, and a short time before the plaintiff fell, the defendant had covered a part of its floor with a liquid substance which left the floor oily and slick and that when she stepped on the slick floor she slipped and fell. The jury awarded her a…