Berube v. Economy Grocery Stores Corp.

These are actions of tort, the first to recover compensation for personal injuries, sustained by the plaintiff, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, and the second by her husband to recover consequential damages.

The jury could have found properly the following facts: On the day of the accident the plaintiff Helen (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff), in the company of her sister, was shopping in the defendant’s so called "Stop and Shop” market on River Street in Hyde Park. Entering the shop the plaintiff walked by a “long vegetable counter” on her *90right.…