Faulkinbury v. Shaw

This is an appeal from a verdict instructed for the defendant by the trial court at the close of plaintiff’s evidence in a personal injury suit instituted by Mrs. Effie Faulkinbury against Percy A. Shaw, doing business as Shaw Gas & Plumbing Company, in the city of Texarkana, Arkansas. Mrs. Faulkinbury was injured in the store of appellee by the falling of a kitchen sink upon her ankle on the morning’ of February 15, 1930, while she was in the appellee’s place of business as a prospective purchaser of merchandise for sale by appellee. The appellee therefore owed the appellant the duty of…