Filipowicz v. S. S. Kresge Co.

While descending a public stairway between 9 and 10 a. m. in going from the second to the first floor of one of defendant’s stores, plaintiff slipped and fell. She was taken to a first aid room, given some medicine and her fractured wrist was bandaged by a physician who was called after the accident.

After receiving treatment plaintiff left the store and when she got out on the street discovered that her dress, underskirt and stockings were all greasy and black. She stated on direct examination that she had slipped on some grease and later iipon being questioned by the trial judge she said the…