Taylor v. S. H. Kress & Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

David O. Taylor brought this action against S. H. Kress & Company, merchants conducting a store at Hutchinson, to recover for a loss of the services of his wife, caused, as he alleged, by the negligence of defendant, by which she was injured and rendered unfit to discharge her domestic duties to the Taylor family. The injury, it is alleged, occurred when she went into de*156fendant’s store to trade and stepped upon some trash on an oiled, slippery floor, which caused her to fall, when she received severe injuries which have incapacitated…