Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Martin

GRAVES, Justice.

This was a suit by Annie Martin, against Sears, Roebuck & Company, and their employee, Mayme Etheridge, wherein the Plaintiff, Annie Martin, alleged and claimed that, while a customer in the Defendant’s store, — Sears, Roebuck & Company’s, — and while in the exercise of due care for her own safety, she stumbled over a display-platform, negligently maintained and operated therein by the Defendants, and sustained personal injuries to herself as the direct and sole proximate result of such negligence of the Defendants.

The case was tried before a jury, and, in answer to some 58…