Baskin v. Montgomery Ward & Co.

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is an action instituted in the Superior Court of Nash County, North Carolina, in July, 1938, by the appellant, Mrs. James Murphy Baskin, here referred to as the plaintiff, against the appellee,- Montgomery Ward & Company, a Delaware corporation, here referred to as the defendant, to recover damages for an alleged injury caused by a fall in defendant’s store in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

The cause was removed to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Wilson, by the defendant.

The defendant answered plaintiff’s…