Lenox v. J. J. Newberry Co.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Trial Term, Tioga County. Plaintiff Maud M. Lenox was a customer in defendant’s variety store. In walking through the store she testified that “my left foot slipped” and another witness described the occurrence by saying that “her feet just went right out from under her. They slipped right out”. She landed in part on her left hand, and putting that hand to her face after the fall she noticed it had on it an “ oily substance ” and “ my hand felt of oil ”. There was also an “ oily substance ” up and down the side of her clothes where these had come…