Bell v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

Opinion by

Me. Justice Schaffer,

Plaintiff brought suit to recover damages for injuries due to a fall on the step of defendant’s store which she was entering as a customer, her allegation being that she slipped on ridges of ice which had formed on the step and which could not be seen because they were covered with snow. The trial resulted in a verdict for plaintiff and from the resulting judgment defendant appeals, urging that judgment should be entered in its favor.

The accident occurred on January 12, 1925, about 11 o’clock in the morning. Plaintiff established in her case by the records of…