Connair v. J. H. Beattie Co.

The plaintiff in the first case, hereinafter called the plaintiff, recovered a verdict for personal injuries sustained by slipping on a moist mass which was on the floor of the defendant’s provision store in Waltham. The plaintiff’s husband recovered a verdict for consequential damages. The question is, whether verdicts for the defendant ought to have been directed, on the ground that there was no evidence of its negligence.

There was evidence of the following facts. The dimensions of the store were fifty feet by eighty feet. When the plaintiff was hurt the store was not busy. Sixteen or…