Collins v. S. H. Kress & Co.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Frankum, Judge.
1. The trial court did not err in excluding, as an admission of the defendant, evidence of an alleged statement made by some unidentified person within about five minutes after the plaintiff had slipped and fallen in the defendant’s store to the effect.that “I told you ten minutes ago to get that stuff up, that somebody was going to break their neck.” There was no evidence as to the identity of the person who made the statement, nor was there any evidence connecting the statement with the particular occurrence for which the plaintiff sued, and it was wholly insufficient to…
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