Wetmore v. McLellan Stores Co.

These are two actions of tort, in one of which the female plaintiff, a customer in the defendant’s •store, seeks to recover damages for personal injuries sustained on May 10, 1939, as the result of a fall allegedly occasioned by the negligent application to the floor of oil or of an oily preparation, and in the other of which the husband of the plaintiff in the first action sues for consequential damages. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in each case. Thereupon the judge with the assent of the jury reserved leave to enter verdicts for the defendant. The defendant filed motions…