Parker v. McCrory Stores Corp.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Bell,

Plaintiff, about 48 years of age, entered the store of defendant as a prospective customer on Saturday, February 3, 1951, about 3:50 p.m. It had been snowing intermittently during the day and some of the snow had been carried into the store and melted there. There were two doorways; plaintiff entered the right-hand door and walked about 6 feet — taking 3 or 4 steps — and slipped and fell on the wooden floor and suffered severe injuries. He was nonsuited.

On this appeal it is by now hornbrook law that plaintiff must be given the benefit of every fact and every…