Temple v. Congress Square Garage, Inc.

This tort action for personal injuries is before us on exceptions to the direction of a verdict for defendant.

Plaintiff, a woman eighty years of age, at about noon on June 15, 1948 entered defendant’s apartment house to visit a friend at the latter’s invitation. On leaving the elevator at the third floor to walk along the hall, plaintiff was warned by a tenant who was operating the self-service elevator that, to use plaintiff’s words, “The janitor had just washed the floor and I must be very careful.”

Light reached the hall from three windows on plaintiff’s right; one in the shaft of the…