Rikard v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Circuit Judge G. B. Greene, Acting Associate Justice.

The complaint in .this action alleges, in substance, that the defendant owns and operates a chain of grocery stores, one of which is located in the Town of Batesburg, Lexington County, S. C.; that on the 18th day of January, 1930, plaintiff was employed as cashier in defendant’s Batesburg store and was in the discharge of her duties as such; that on said date one J. M. Sprouse, an assistant superintendent of defendant’s chain of stores, entered the store at Batesburg, and, while in said store and…