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ANGELINA BATTISTA vs. F. W. WOOLWORTH CO.
A conclusion of negligence on the part of the proprietor of a store toward a customer injured by slipping on tiling at the entrance to the store was not proper on facts not disclosing any defect in the construction of the entrance and not showing that smoothness of the tiling was due to wear and not natural to it, but merely showing that the tiling was wet from rainfall and consequently was slippery and that nothing to counteract such slippery condition had been provided.
TORT. Writ in the Superior Court dated November 12, 1940.
The case was heard upon an auditor's report by Leary, J.
G. R. Stobbs, L. E. Stockwell, & S. B. Tilton, for the defendant.
Nicholas Fusaro & Nunziato Fusaro, for the plaintiff.
in an entrance to the defendant's store in Clinton. The case was referred to an auditor, his findings of fact to be final. The judge ordered that judgment be entered for the plaintiff on the auditor's report, and the defendant appealed.
of opinion that negligence could not be found in the reasons stated by the auditor. This case falls within Tariff v. S. S. Kresge Co. 299 Mass. 129, Kiley v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 301 Mass. 570, Moors v. Boston Elevated Railway, 305 Mass. 81, and similar decisions, and not within Cromarty v. Boston, 127 Mass. 329, Moynihan v. Holyoke, 193 Mass. 26, and Corcoran v. United Markets, Inc. 314 Mass. 26, relied upon by the plaintiff.

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