SAFEWAY STORES, INC. v. MORGAN

No. 4547.

253 A.2d 452 (1969)

SAFEWAY STORES, INC., a corporation, Appellant, v. Margaret MacG. MORGAN, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 14, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Clague, Washington, D. C., with whom Francis C. O'Brien, Washington, D. C., appeared on the brief, for appellant.

Ewing Laporte, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and KELLY and GALLAGHER, Associate Judges.


KELLY, Associate Judge:

While appellee was shopping in appellant's self-service supermarket one afternoon she approached an employee to ask him a question. As she did so, she slipped on a single grape which was one of a number of large green grapes on the floor of an aisle in the store. On this appeal the only allegation of error is the denial of appellant's motions for directed verdict made both at the close of appellee's case and at the close of all the evidence...

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