Legal Opinion
Jennings v. First National Stores, Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 1, 1936PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The only question is, whether the judge erred in denying a motion for entry of a verdict in favor of the defendant under leave reserved. There was. evidence of the following facts. The plaintiff, a customer in the defendant’s retail food store, which was thirty-four feet wide and fifty-nine feet deep, was injured a little after eleven o’clock on a Saturday morning by slipping and falling on some large grapes which were on the floor.
Ten or fifteen minutes earlier grapes were being carried into the store in crates or cartons, and individual grapes were dropping from them to the floor. Some of…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- White v. MugarMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Judson v. American Railway Express Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
- DePrizio v. F. W. Woolworth Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Knowles v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
- Sisson v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Gallagher v. STOP & STOP, INC.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1955
- Heina v. Broadway Fruit Market, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Connair v. J. H. Beattie Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Beach v. S. S. Kresge Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Bennett v. CohenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
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