Thompson v. Giant Tiger Corp.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wells, J.

On September 10th, 1935, the plaintiff, Mrs. Sarah Thompson, accompanied by her husband, was a business visitor at the defendant’s store in the city of Camden. She had just purchased a ten-pound bag of sugar at the grocery counter, when as she left the counter- — -being about two feet away — she slipped on something black on the floor and fell, and was injured. She brought suit against the defendant in the Supreme Court, alleging in her complaint that she was an invitee of defendant and while engaged in making purchases of merchandise she…