Steggall v. W. T. Knapp & Co.

The defendant is engaged in the sale of merchandise in a four-story building in Bay City, on each floor of which its goods are kept on display for sale. On January 20, 1926, the plaintiff, accompanied by her little girl, five years of age, went up the stairway leading to the third floor. It is her claim that as she landed on the floor she caught sight of a bolt of linoleum, which had been standing on end, falling towards her; that she pushed her little girl out of reach of it and caught it with her hands; that it pulled her to the floor, wrenching her back and otherwise inflicting serious…