Shaw v. JF WARD COMPANY
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal .by plaintiff from Gambill, J., February 25, 1963, Civil Session, DavidsoN Superior Court. Civil action ¡to recover damages for personal injury. At the close of plaintiff’s evidence the ¡court entered judgment of .compulsory nonsuit, from which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHiggins, J.
The plaintiff, an invitee, was injured in a fall as she descended the wooden steps between the first and the second floors of defendant's department store. She alleged: “That said second step was loose and would give under pressure and the cupped, loose, worn, depressed and uneven area, was very islick from constant wear.”
The plaintiff testified: “When I came down the stairway, I Lad my tend on the rai-l. When I got to the second step from this little platform where you step on -before you go down into the store, my foot ©lipped off the step "and I fell. It was my right foot that slipped off.…
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