40 N.E.2d 548

Ella Freeman, Appellant, v. Leader Mercantile Company, Appellee. (Abstract of Decision.)

Appellate Court of Illinois.
Opinion filed March 2, 1942

TRIAL, § 254.3[*] prima facie case, judgment n.o.v. as error.
Where the plaintiff, while a customer in a store, fell on a stairway to her injury, and she testified that the place where she slipped was worn and slick from natural wear, and the jury returned a verdict in her favor, the plaintiff made a prima facie case of actionable negligence and the trial court erred in entering judgment notwithstanding the verdict.

[*] See Callaghan’s Illinois Digest, same topic and sectionnumber.

Appeal from City Court of Granite City; Hon. WESLEY LUEDERS, presiding.

Reversed and remanded with directions. Heard in this court at October term, 1941

Whitnel, Browning, Listeman Walker and Manuel M. Wiseman, for appellant;

Altman Bremser, of counsel;

Lashly, Lashly, Miller Clifford and Kramer, Campbell, Costello Wiechert, for appellee;

Oliver J. Miller, of counsel.

Opinion by JUSTICE DADY.

“Not to be published in full.” Opinion filed March 2, 1942.

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