Gorden v. Goldberg

WILLIS, J., pro tem.

Respondents were merchants conducting a poultry market in Los Angeles. While appellant Frieda Gorden, as a customer, was in respondents’ place of business purchasing a chicken, standing near an “egg house” having a roof some 8 by 8 feet in dimension and 8 feet above the floor, and on which a glass light globe or shade was, and for a long time had been placed, a live chicken, escaping from one of the coops in the store, flew upon the roof or top of the egg house, lighting on the globe, dislodging or pushing it from its position and causing it to fall, striking Mrs. Gorden…