King Hardware Co. v. Teplis

Mrs. Mary Teplis and Louis Teplis, her husband (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiffs), filed their separate petitions in the Fulton Superior Court against King Hardware Company. The petitions alleged in substance that Mrs. Teplis had gone into the defendant’s retail store on April 8, 1953, for the purpose of making a purchase; that, after she had made her purchase, she proceeded toward the front store entrance by an aisle provided for customers in passing between merchandise counters upon which goods for sale were displayed; that as she reached the front end of the aisle, which ran from…