Court Opinion

ID: 9447653
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 22:40:21.746721+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:07.889800
License: Public Domain

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.