Zayre of Georgia, Inc. v. Haynes

Deen, Presiding Judge.

1. The defendant appeals from a plaintiffs verdict. The evidence in the case was substantially as follows: Thelma Haynes, a customer, was proceeding down a narrow aisle between counters piled high with merchandise toward a check-out counter when she was signaled by an employee to come to another counter. As she turned to do so her foot caught on a box of merchandise of the same color as the floor, which was either partly or wholly in the aisle, and which had been placed there by an employee who had been in the process of unloading it when called away. Under similar…