Case Name: Mildred C. KELLY et al., Appellants, v. GREAT ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1960-12-08
Citations: 284 F.2d 610
Docket Number: No. 15852
Parties: Mildred C. KELLY et al., Appellants, v. GREAT ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 284
Pages: 610–611

Head Matter:
Mildred C. KELLY et al., Appellants, v. GREAT ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
No. 15852.
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.
Argued Nov. 8, 1960.
Decided Dec. 8, 1960.
Burger, Circuit Judge, dissented.
Mr. Charles H. Quimby, Washington, D. C., for appellants.
Mr. Jeremiah C. Collins, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Frank F. Roberson, Washington, D. C., was on.the brief, for appellee.
Before Mr. Justice Reed, retired, Wilbur K. Miller, Chief Judge, and Burger, Circuit Judge.
Sitting by designation pursuant to Section 294(a), Title 28 U.S.C.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
While Mrs. Mildred C. Kelly was shopping in one of the appellee's stores, she stepped into a slippery substance on the floor thought to have been the contents of a jar of baby food. In the complaint filed by her and her husband it was alleged that the appellee "knew, or in the exercise of ordinary case should have known" of the slippery condition of the floor "in sufficient time to have remedied the said slippery, dangerous and unsafe condition before the occurrence hereinafter set forth." At the conclusion of the evidence, the trial judge directed a verdict for the defendant, whereupon this appeal was taken.
There was no evidence that appellee knew of the presence of foreign matter on the floor, nor did the proof show the condition had existed long enough to justify a holding of constructive notice. Brodsky v. Safeway Stores, 1945, 80 U.S.App.D.C. 301, 152 F.2d 677.
Affirmed.