Decicco v. Marlou Holding Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wells, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in the Atlantic County Circuit Court based upon a jury verdict in favor of the defendant-respondent, Marlou Holding Company, and against the plaintiff-appellant, Rita DeCicco, administratrix ad prosequendum of the estate of John A. DeCicco, deceased.

On the evening of September 14th, 1944, a Miss Stadler was walking along Kentucky Avenue in Atlantic City when she met the decedent, John A. DeCicco, in front of his place of business. A storm of hurricane intensity had struck Atlantic City earlier that…