Ellis v. Rosenberg

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

The appeal is by the defendants from a judgment for the plaintiff given by a jury in the Bergen Pleas in a suit for personal injuries caused by a fall in the defendant’s store. There was testimony which, in itself and in the legitimate inferences to be drawn therefrom, would sustain a factual finding that the plaintiff was a customer on the premises for the purpose of, and was in the act of, purchasing goods, and that while inspecting certain foods products she made a stop and fell, to her injury; that the floor was in a defective condition and…