Walker v. F. & W. Grand Five-Ten-Twenty-Five-Cent Stores, Inc.

The defendant appeals from a judgment rendered against it in the Elizabeth District Court by the judge sitting without á jury at the suit of Adeline M. Walker, who claimed to have been injured by a fall due to the faulty condition of stairs in the defendant’s store.

The. evidence disclosed that the plaintiff visited the store on the 21st of December, 1925, to make some purchases, and that as she was going down a stairway from the first floor to the basement she fell and sustained injuries. It was proven that at the edge of each step on all of the stairways in the store (there were two others)…