McNeil v. First National Stores, Inc.

In this action of tort the plaintiff seeks to recover damages for personal injuries sustained when she fell in the defendant’s store at 184 Harvard Avenue, *47Brighton. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The action comes here upon the defendant’s exceptions to the denial of its motion for a directed verdict and to the admission of evidence. There was error.

The evidence in its aspects most favorable to the plaintiff may be summarized as follows: The plaintiff at or about 6 p.m. on Friday, January 7, 1955, went to the defendant’s store to buy some food. The entrance to the store…