Brown v. Jones

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Musmanno,

On the evening of December 29, 1954, Mrs. Elsie C. Brown purchased at an A. & P. store in Bryn Mawr, Lower Merion Township, such an abundance of groceries that four large shopping bags were needed to contain them, and the services of a grocer’s clerk were required to assist in carrying the cargo. The clerk hauled three of the bags in a shopping cart called a “store glider,” while Mrs. Brown carried the fourth bag in her left hand, as she clutched in her right hand an open umbrella since it was now raining. Her destination was her home, located on Elliott Avenue…