Judgment reversed on the facts and new trial granted, with costs to abide the event.
According to plaintiffs' proofs, the female plaintiff, Mrs. Olsen, an invitee in defendant's rectory, sustained her injuries as a result of having tripped on a carpet runner which was on the highly-waxed and slippery floor of a hallway in the rectory; the runner itself slipped as Mrs. Olsen was trying to keep from falling. The plaintiffs claim that the cause of the tripping was a...
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