BRAZIER v. GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA COMPANY

No. 17057.

256 F.2d 96 (1958)

Annie Mae BRAZIER, Appellant, v. The GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 13, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorothy A. Smith, Charles J. King, Deerfield Beach, Fla., Grimditch & Smith, Deerfield Beach, Fla., for appellant.

H. Eugene Fischer, Richard B. Adams, Miami, Fla., Brown, Dean, Adams & Fischer, Miami, Fla., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RIVES and CAMERON, Circuit Judges.


CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the question whether, in a common law action for negligence, an employee is entitled to recover from her employer damages for personal injuries sustained when she fell while returning from a refreshment stand across the street from employer's premises, by reason of the unsafe condition of the temporary walk-way provided by outsiders who were engaged in paving the street, when the employer had "directed" the employee to...

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