Brown v. S. H. Kress & Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. ChiEE Justice Beease.

The respondent sued the appellants, Kress & Co., a corporation, and Doyle and Holton, manager and assistant manager, respectively, of the corporation, for injuries alleged to have been received by her from a fall occasioned by the negligence of the appellants in not properly maintaining the floor of a store-room. From the verdict and judgment thereon, adverse to the appellants, they have brought the case to this Court.

There are twenty-one exceptions, at least twice too many. One of these has eighteen subdivisions. Most of them…