Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Popkins

We have for review two appeals by the defendant in two cases tried jointly after they were consolidated. They are for personal injuries received by appellee Mrs. Popkins in one- case, and for the loss of her companionship in the. other case by. her husband, appellee in it.

Mrs. Popkins is shown to have slipped and fallen as she was leaving a self-service grocery store of appellant’s in Birmingham. She did not make a purchase and had no groceries to check,' apparently because the meat counter was'closed.

The customers on leaving passed through an aisle, by which on the left was located a stall…