Dooley v. Economy Store, Inc.

Plaintiff seeks to recover for injuries that she received from a fall in defendant’s store. She had a verdict and judgment below and the case is here on defendant’s exceptions.

Defendant’s store is divided into various departments among which are the suit and the millinery departments. These are located on the second floor and are connected by an archway eight to ten feet wide. The floor of the suit department is two to three feet higher than the floor of the millinery department and there are two stairs leading from the former to the latter that extend across the entire archway. The tread of…