State Ex Rel. F. W. Woolworth Co. v. Bland

[263] Cecile Clifford recovered judgment for $5,000 against the F. W. Woolworth Company and another for her personal injuries caused by slipping and falling on the floor in a Woolworth store in Independence. On appeal to the Kansas City Court of Appeals the judgment was affirmed. Clifford v. F. W. Woolworth Co. (Mo. App.), 201 S. W. (2d) 416.

We granted certiorari on the contention of the Woolworth Company that the record failed to show the dangerous condition of the floor had existed for any length of time prior to the fall, so that the company could not be charged with notice of the…