HARRY E. WATKINS, District Judge.
The principal question here is whether the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is applicable in a case where the plaintiff falls when stepping on a slippery foreign substance on the step of an escalator while a customer in defendant's store. The District Court thought that such doctrine was not applicable in this case, and we agree.
On March 31, 1955, plaintiff was a customer in defendant's store at Norfolk, Va., and while being...
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