Fanelty v. Rogers Jewelers, Inc.

First consideration will be given to the assignments of error relating to the exclusion of testimony.

The plaintiff was not hurt by the rulings covered by her first and second exceptions because substantially the same evidence was subsequently admitted. Metcalf v. Ratcliff, 216 N.C. 216, 4 S.E. 2d 515; Bryant v. Reedy, 214 N.C. 748, 200 S.E. 896; Keith v. Kennedy, 194 N.C. 784, 140 S.E. 721.

The third exception challenges the ruling of the court excluding testimony tending to show that at least one month after the plaintiff’s fall Bill Avery, the manager of the defendant’s store, stated to…