Hendsey v. Southern New England Telephone Co.

The complaint alleged negligence by the defendant in waxing the linoleum floor of its office so heavily as to cause wax to cake on a heel of plaintiff’s shoe, because of which she slipped and fell on a tiled floor in defendant’s vestibule. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and this appeal is from the denial of a motion to set it aside.

The first question is whether the jury could reasonably have found that the defendant was negligent in the maintenance of its public offices. There was evidence that the linoleum'floor of the office where the plaintiff paid her telephone bill was…