Ziegler v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Drew,

Sarah W. Ziegler and her husband brought this action to recover compensation for injuries alleged to have been suffered by her on June 18, 1931, when she slipped and fell on the floor of defendant’s telegraph office in the Jenkins Arcade Building in the City of Pittsburgh. The jury found for plaintiffs, and from the judgments entered against it defendant appealed, assigning as error, inter alia, the refusal of its motion for judgment n. o. v.

The office in question faces about sixteen feet on the arcade and runs back nineteen feet along Stanwix Street. A space seven…