McAuley v. United Cigar Stores Co. of America, Inc.

Finch, J.:

The action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the respondent in having fallen at the entrance to one of appellant’s stores as he was leaving the same after making a purchase therein, by reason of an accumulation of snow and ice at such entrance.

According to the records of the Weather Bureau, it had been snowing all day and up until ten-fifty p. m. and continued sleeting thereafter, with a high wind blowing all the time. The accident happened at about eleven p. m., at which time there was *357an accumulation of snow and ice in front of the defendant’s…