Parker v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

The fact that a floor is oiled constitutes no evidence of negligence. Oiling is both customary and necessary, particularly in stores of the type and character described in the evidence. Nor does the more fact that a customer falls in a store constitute evidence of negligence for the reason that judicial utterances upon the subject concur in the view that res ipsa loquitur does not apply to injuries resulting from slipping or falling, occasioned by the presence of grease or oil upon the floors of a store.

Considering the evidence in the case at bar with that liberality which the law requires,…