Cutroneo v. F. W. Woolworth Co.

In this civil action the plaintiff seeks damages for injuries allegedly sustained when she slipped and fell as she entered the Woolworth store premises on Westminster Street in Providence. After a jury in the Superior Court returned a verdict in her favor, the trial justice ■granted the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict on which he had reserved decision. The plaintiff thereupon appealed from the judgment entered thereon.

Since the case comes to us solely on the question of whether the trial justice erred in granting defendant’s motion for a direction, we view the evidence and the…