Legal Opinion
Lois v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 8, 1945No. 87PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHASE, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff was injured shortly after sundown on the evening of January 12, 1943, when he was walking along the sidewalk in front of a store of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in Ossining, N. Y. Dim-out regulations were then in effect and the street was dark. He stumbled over one of a pair of unlighted cellar doors which were open on the sidewalk and fell into the passageway leading to the cellar. He brought this suit against the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, hereinafter called A. & P. for brevity, in the state court and the action was removed on the…
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