RAMSEY v. MONTGOMERY WARD & COMPANY

No. 8665.

309 F.2d 141 (1962)

Perlie RAMSEY, Appellant, v. MONTGOMERY WARD & COMPANY, Inc., a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 9, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Hayes Pettry, Charleston, W. Va., for appellant.

Walter C. Price, Jr., Charleston, W. Va. (Payne, Minor, Ray, Price & Loeb, Charleston, W. Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before BRYAN and BELL, Circuit Judges, and HUTCHESON, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

While walking down the aisle as a customer in the store of the appellee, Montgomery Ward & Company, Inc., at Charleston, West Virginia, Perlie Ramsey, the appellant, slipped and painfully turned her ankle. She caught herself on a display counter and so avoided a fall.

In an action to recover damages for the injury she alleged it was the result of negligence and the maintenance of a nuisance on the part of Montgomery Ward, in that the floor...

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