Montgomery Ward and Co. v. Young

Montgomery Ward and Company, defendant in the trial court, by this writ of error seeks reversal of a judgment for $1,250 entered against it on the verdict of a jury, as compensation for personal injuries sustained by Harry L. Young, plaintiff, while a business visitor in defendant’s warehouse.

On September 26, 1951, plaintiff went into the retail store, operated by defendant in the city of Martinsville, to purchase duct pipe fittings. G. R. Turner, defendant’s employee in charge of this department, informed plaintiff that defendant had an assortment of pipe fittings in its warehouse. Turner,…