Opinion
Gen. No. 42,878. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed April 6, 1944
BUILDINGS AND BUILDING RESTRICTIONS, § 8 — when customer of department store not entitled to recover for injuries sustained as result of slipping on stairway. In action for damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff as result of slipping on foreign substance on defendant's stairway located in defendant's department store, to which plaintiff had gone for purpose of purchasing certain articles, trial court did not err in directing jury to find verdict of not guilty, where plaintiff offered no evidence tending to prove that defendant had either actual or constructive notice that such slippery substance was on stairway.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. FRANCIS B. ALLEGRETTI, Judge, presiding.
Judgment affirmed. Heard in the second division, first district, this court at the October term, 1943.
Peter D. Giachini and Kieran P. O'Gallagher, for appellant;
B.S. Quigley, for appellee; Ezra L. D'Isa, of counsel.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed April 6, 1944.