Beaulieu v. Stop & Shop Companies

This appeal raises the issue of whether the trial judge erred in finding that the defendant was negligent in causing water to fall on and around the area of a rug in front of the store fish counter.

We find there was no error.

This is an action in tort to recover for personal injuries.

On August 23, 1991, a very warm and beautiful sunny day, the plaintiff was a customer in the defendant’s store. She testified that she purchased a fish from defendant’s employee who was behind the fish counter. The plaintiff claims as she was putting the fish into her shopping carriage, she stepped off a rug on…