TAYLOR v. GREAT ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA COMPANY


161 S.E.2d 692 (1968)

209 Va. 64

Margaret E. TAYLOR v. The GREAT ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA COMPANY, Inc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

June 10, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Harvell, III, Theodore V. Morrison, Jr., Newport News, (William McL. Ferguson, Ferguson & Harvell, Morrison & Stephenson, Newport News, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

Daniel W. Wilkinson, Jr., Newport News, (Ford, West & Wilkinson, Newport News, on brief), for defendant in error.

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and BUCHANAN, SNEAD, I'ANSON, CARRICO, GORDON and HARRISON, JJ.


I'ANSON, Justice.

Plaintiff, Margaret E. Taylor, instituted this action against the defendant, The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, Inc., to recover damages for injuries sustained when she slipped and fell to the floor in defendant's store while there as a customer.

The case was tried to a jury, and at the conclusion of plaintiff's evidence defendant moved the court to strike out all her evidence and enter summary judgment in its favor. In sustaining...

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