Lydia v. Fuller v. Giant Food, Inc., (A Body Corporate)

The District Court directed a verdict for the appellee at the close of appellants’ case in which damages were sought for personal injury sustained when the appellant-wife slipped in appellee’s supermarket. Testimony revealed that shortly after appellants, who are husband and wife, entered the store the wife slipped in an aisle between rows of merchandise and shelves. After slipping she observed a small patch of moisture, a grape or plum and some sawdust. She and her husband then reported the incident to an employee who at once removed the material with a piece of paper and a cardboard. There…