Norton v. Hudner
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff from slipping on the floor of the defendant’s market at the corner of Borden Street and Main Street in Fall River on November 15, 1907. Writ dated June 20, 1908. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Fox, J., who at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, which is described in the opinion, ordered a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The plaintiff went into the defendant’s market to buy meat and butter and, after purchasing the butter, as she turned to go to the meat counter, slipped, as she testified, upon a piece of meat covered with sawdust, and fell, receiving the injuries complained of. The floor of the market was covered with sawdust. A man was employed by the defendant whose duty it was to sweep the floor and keep it clean. He was engaged all the time in the performance of this duty. This man was dead at the time of the trial. Sawdust was sprinkled over the floor twice a day, about eight or nine in the…
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