F W Woolworth Co. v. Bland

OPINION

By STEVENS, J.

Reference will be made to the parties as they appeared in the lower court, where Lois Bland appeared as plaintiff and F. W. Woolworth Co. as defendant.

Plaintiff filed her petition against defendant, seeking recovery for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by her from falling upon a certain step in a stairway maintained by defendant in its store at 76 South Main Street, Akron, Ohio.

It was alleged therein that plaintiff failed to properly inspect said step, and that by reason thereof the metal binding on the front of the step was permitted to come into…