Reed v. L. Hammel Dry Goods Co.

The suit is for personal injuries alleged to be the result of negligence of the defendant or its employees.

Defendant owned and operated a public retail store in the city of Mobile. The plaintiff was a customer. While passing through the store toward the cashier’s office to pay her bill, she stumbled or tripped over the base of a weighing machine, penny in the slot weighing scales, and fell to the floor receiving some injuries.

The first count of the complaint, to which demurrer was sustained, is defective in failing to allege that defendant’s agents, servants, or employees, charged with the…