Antoine v. Saxton Hardware Co.

Plaintiff alleges that she was injured as a result of stumbling over the platform portion of a penny-in-the-slot weighing machine. She claims that, because of a crowd which had assembled to watch a demonstration that was going on in the show-case of one of the defendant corporations, she was prevented from seeing the machine and that, in walking along the sidewalk, she tripped over it.

The machine was owned by the Peerless Weighing Machine Company and had been placed on the sidewalk in front of the 'store of Saxton Hardware Company, under an arrangement by which the earnings were to be divided…