Rich's, Inc. v. Waters

Bell, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from the denial of defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a negligence suit. The plaintiff was injured when she exited from an escalator in defendant’s store, turned to her left, and tripped over or stumbled into a raised platform on which furniture was displayed. Plaintiff alleged that defendant was negligent (1) in constructing the aisle in an unsafe manner; (2) in failing to make the aisle safe for customers; (3) in placing on the aisle the platform which has the same parquet flooring as the aisle; (4) in constructing the platform "abruptly” in such…