McCarthy v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

This is an action to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff at a store of the defendant in Fall River, to which the plaintiff had come as a customer. The jury found for the plaintiff.

The entrance to the store was three and one half feet wide at the door. The plaintiff testified as follows: When he entered the store he saw on his right two bread boxes, one on top of the other, “up against” the right hand side of the entrance. There was sufficient space to go into the store without difficulty. These boxes were about two feet long, a foot and a half wide and a foot and a half…