Opinion
Gen. No. 42,790. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed January 18, 1944
NEGLIGENCE, § 96 — lack of evidence of negligence of department store as to patron falling in aisle of store. In action against department store for injuries received by plaintiff patron when she fell in aisle of defendant's grocery and meat department, held that evidence of negligence on part of defendant was so lacking that verdict, returned for plaintiff, could not have been sustained, even if plaintiff had not been precluded from recovering, as she was, by Workmen's Compensation Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, ch. 48, pars. 139, 166; Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 143.18, 143.44).
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. GEORGE W. BRISTOW, Judge, presiding.
Judgment reversed and cause remanded with directions. Heard in the second division, first district, this court at the October term, 1943.
Abraham B. Litow, for appellant;
A.L. Williams, for appellee.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed January 18, 1944.