WOOD v. GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA CO.


452 A.2d 974 (1982)

Thelma WOOD v. The GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA COMPANY, INC. v. ATLANTIC ENTERPRISES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided December 1, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan D. Graves (orally), Machias, for plaintiff.

Mitchell & Stearns, Samuel W. Lanham, Jr. (orally), Bangor, for Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

Rudman & Winchell, Edith A. Richardson (orally), Bangor, for Atlantic Enterprises, Inc.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and GODFREY, NICHOLS, ROBERTS and VIOLETTE, JJ.


VIOLETTE, Justice.

Thelma Wood fractured her kneecap after stumbling over a defect in the parking lot of a store leased and operated by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. (A&P) in Machias. She sued defendant/third-party plaintiff A&P for negligence and A&P brought a third-party complaint sounding in both negligence and contract against the lot's lessor, Atlantic Enterprises (Atlantic), seeking indemnification against any recovery by plaintiff...

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