MURRAY v. DONELAN


333 Mass. 228 (1955)

129 N.E.2d 922

FANNIE MURRAY vs. JOHN DONELAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

November 8, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel A. Lynch, (Jeremiah F. Murphy, Jr., with him,) for the defendant.

John E. Leggat, for the plaintiff.

Present: QUA, C.J., RONAN, WILKINS, SPALDING, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

On November 22, 1952, "a very windy, stormy day," the plaintiff was a business invitee in the defendant's store. It was "raining very hard." The "floor was very wet." After looking at a cocoanut display the plaintiff "took four or five steps to the rear of the store ..., all of a sudden, she stepped on something and slid ... she stepped on something slippery ... it was slipperier than the floor." In March, 1954, the plaintiff went back to look at the floor...

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