Potts v. Armour & Co.

Isaac Potts, a retail grocer, forty-six years old, brought this suit against Armour & Company to recover for personal injuries sustained when he was struck by an iron meat hook while on the loading platform of defendant’s building at the Union Stock Yard in Baltimore.

The accident occurred on the morning of January 19, 1943, when plaintiff, after ordering meat in defendant’s office, was walking toward the cooler, where he intended to select the meat. He had a space about three and a half feet wide in which to walk between the wall and the meat hooks hanging from trolley-blocks on an overhead…