Young v. Food Fair, Inc.

This case comes here on the plaintiff’s exception to the allowance, at the close of the evidence, of the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict.

The plaintiff’s testimony in substance was as follows: About 5:30 p.m. on April 21, 1950, the plaintiff and her husband entered the defendant’s store to purchase some meat. The plaintiff’s husband preceded her through the turnstile, and as she was about to pass through it she slipped and fell to the floor and fractured her wrist. At the place where she fell she saw sawdust on the floor. In the sawdust she saw a white, slimy substance; it was all…