Carpenter v. Herpolsheimer's Co.

In action for injuries sustained by plaintiff, while she was a customer in defendant’s store, defendant had directed verdict.

In the center of an aisle, eight or nine feet wide, defendant had put a table, 30 inches in width, for the display and sale of purses. Empty purse boxes were piled under the tables by clerks and periodically removed. They were piled two rows deep. The boxes were about 6 inches high, 9 wide and 12 long.

Plaintiff claims that as she was walking beside the table in a crowd of people she stepped into a box in the middle of the aisle, which “looked like a box that possibly…