Annie Mae Brazier v. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company

CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the question whether, in a common law action for negligence, an employee is entitled to recover from her employer damages for personal injuries sustained when she fell while returning from a refreshment stand across the street from employer’s premises, by reason of the unsafe condition of the temporary walk-way provided by outsiders who were engaged in paving the street, when the employer had “directed” the employee to take a “coffee-break” and had provided no coffee on the premises. Plaintiff (appellant) Brazier brought a civil action against…