GOODMAN v. SEARS ROEBUCK COMPANY

No. 1904.

129 A.2d 405 (1957)

Eunice GOODMAN and Bernard I. Goodman, Appellants, v. SEARS ROEBUCK COMPANY and Joseph F. Nebel Company, a Corporation, Appellees.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided February 20, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin L. Newmyer, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Mark B. Sandground was on the brief, for appellants. Selmer R. Johnson, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellants.

Allan C. Swingle, Washington, D.C., with whom George N. Kenyon was on the brief, for appellees.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellant Eunice Goodman and her husband sued for damages resulting from a fall suffered by her shortly after leaving the Sears Roebuck Store in Arlington, Virginia. Named as defendants were Sears and a construction company hereafter called Nebel. This appeal is from a directed verdict against appellants at the close of their case.

The testimony of appellants was that they were customers in Sears' store and left the

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