Fox v. Ben Schechter Co.

OPINION

By MATTHEWS, J.

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Summit County, in favor of the plaintiff in that court in an action in which she sought damages for personal injuries received by her when she stepped on a slippery substance on the floor of the defendant’s grocery, fruit, and vegetable store, as she was leaving it after purchasing groceries therein from the defendant.

The appellee alleged that the appellant was negligent in allowing decayed or partially decayed fruit and vegetable matter to remain on the floor in the main aisle of the…