Case Name: MISS MARTHA JONES v. GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA COMPANY
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1941-09-24
Citations: 220 N.C. 817
Docket Number: 
Parties: MISS MARTHA JONES v. GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA COMPANY.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 220
Pages: 817–817

Head Matter:
MISS MARTHA JONES v. GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA COMPANY.
(Filed 24 September, 1941.)
Appeal by plaintiff from Bobbitt, J., at May Term, 1941, of BuNcombe.
Affirmed.
Bon C. Young for plaintiff, appellant.
Williams & Coche for defendant, appellee.

Opinion:
Pee Cukiam.
Plaintiff instituted ber action to recover damages for personal injury due to a fall in tbe defendant's store. This, she alleged, was due to an accumulation of oil or grease on the floor. At the conclusion of all the evidence defendant renewed its motion for judgment of nonsuit, and this was allowed, and judgment rendered dismissing the action. Plaintiff appealed.
An examination of the plaintiff's evidence, as shown by the record, leads us to the conclusion that its probative force does not measure up to that held sufficient to go to the jury in Anderson v. Amusement Co., 213 N. C., 130, 195 S. E., 386, but that the case is rather governed by the decision in Pratt v. Tea Co., 218 N. C., 732, 12 S. E. (2d), 242.
The judgment of nonsuit is
Affirmed.