Griffin v. Demerjian

These are the plaintiff’s exceptions to the direction of a verdict for the defendant in an action of tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on August 29, 1960, in the defendant’s variety store when her foot caught in a wire display rack behind the soda fountain.

The jury could have found as follows: There were five or six stools in front of the fountain and to its right was a window. The wire rack “in the form of latticework” extended from the window behind the right hand stool and half way to the next stool in a line parallel to the stools. The space between the rack and the…