FULLER v. GIANT FOOD, INC.

No. 16974.

310 F.2d 858 (1962)

Lydia V. FULLER et al., Appellants, v. GIANT FOOD, INC., (a body corporate), Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided November 1, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Martin E. Gerel, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Lee C. Ashcraft, and Joseph H. Koonz, Jr., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Jeremiah C. Collins, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Frank F. Roberson, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before EDGERTON, BURGER and WRIGHT, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The District Court directed a verdict for the appellee at the close of appellants' case in which damages were sought for personal injury sustained when the appellant-wife slipped in appellee's supermarket. Testimony revealed that shortly after appellants, who are husband and wife, entered the store the wife slipped in an aisle between rows of merchandise and shelves. After slipping she observed a small patch of moisture, a grape or plum and some sawdust...

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