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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mary A. Reilly, Respondent, v. American Meat and Supply Company, Inc., Appellant.
    
      Negligence — stores — action to recover for injuries from fall in store caused by stepping on crushed fruit hidden by sawdust.
    
    
      Reilly v. Amer. Meat & Supply Co., Inc., 222 App. Div. 739, affirmed.
    (Argued April 4, 1928;
    decided May 1, 1928.)
    Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered April 20,1927, unanimously affirming a judgment in favor" of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendant. Plaintiff, while walking along an aisle in defendant’s store, slipped on what was described as “ mashed fruit ” hidden by sawdust and fell receiving the injuries complained of.
    
      Robert H. Charlton and John T. Loughran for appellant.
    
      Harold R. Medina, Joseph Levy, Edward Gluck and Joseph A. McLaughlin for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Andrews, Lehman and O’Brien, JJ. Dissenting: Crane and Kellogg, JJ.