Case ID: ri-dec_5/html/0096-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "OAPOTO'STO, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Annie Fingerman vs. F. W. Woolworth Company
    No. 70528.
    March 8, 1929.
    For plaintiff: Baker & Spicer, Walter I. Sundlun.
    For defendant: Ralph T. Barnefield.
   OAPOTO'STO, J.

The -plaintiff claims that on April 14, 1926, about 10:30 a. m., while a customer in defendant’s store, she slipped upon a piece of waxed paper, was thrown to the floor and injured. The -plaintiff testified that the paper in question was trampled upon and pieces -of it were stuck to the floor. There was evidence 'that envelopes of a similar kind of paper and containing mérchandise were displayed on a nearby counter. Certain statements claimed to have -been made by a salesgirl who was not produced as a witness were excluded and the plaintiff’s exceptions duly noted. It is not the province of this Court to review i-ts own rulings. This phase of the case, therefore, must be left to a higher Court for determination.

The defendant denied liability by disclaiming any knowledge of any dangerous condition of the floor.

The -case is a border line case. The Court gave the plaintiff the benefit of any doubt and submitted the issue to the jury, which returned a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff’s motion for another trial reflects the hope of every unsuccessful litigant.

Motion for new trial denied.