Gleason v. Almac's, Inc.

This is a civil action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting from a fall in a market operated by the defendant. It is before this court on the defendant’s appeal from the trial justice’s denial of its motion for a directed verdict.

It is undisputed that on or about April 2, 1965, plaintiff was shopping with her son in defendant’s self-service supermarket in the village of Wakefield. They had completed their shopping and plaintiff’s son, pushing a carrier provided for customers, was already in one of the four check-out aisles toward which plaintiff was walking to join her son, when…