Smith v. Lit Bros.

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

In mid-afternoon of May 18, 1949, the wife-plaintiff entered Lit Brothers department store in Philadelphia to make some purchases. At that time construction work was in progress for the installation of an escalator from the third to the fourth floors of the building. This plaintiff, on an escalator between the first and second floors, felt plaster and dust falling on her from overhead and was struck by a piece of glass which injured her left shoulder and cut her left forearm. When she reached the second floor she observed men working to her left on the ceiling of the room…