Jaworski v. Great Scott Supermarkets

Plaintiff appeals a jury verdict of no cause of action. This litigation arose out of an unfortunate accident wherein the elderly plaintiff slipped on cottage cheese dropped in defendant’s store by another customer a few seconds before the fall. At the time of the accident a stockboy was filling the milk cooler from a hand truck which was stacked three or four feet high. Plaintiff took two to four steps past this truck and estimated that the cheese was from three to five feet beyond. The head of the dairy department testified that he had returned from lunch a minute or so before the fall and…