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- Title: Owen v. Beauchamp
- Author : Second Appellate District, Division Two District Court Of Appeal Of California
- Release Date : January 10, 1944
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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The question for decision is whether the trial court correctly instructed the jury to find for defendant, a dentist, who allegedly had permitted dental wax to remain upon the floor of his office which was visited by appellant Elly [Owen] on November 9, 1942. On arriving there, plaintiff crossed the linoleum-covered floor in the reception hall and entered a carpeted room, a total distance of about 53 feet from the elevator. She then waited about an hour, during which time she observed that there was no foreign substance on her shoes. On being called for her treatment she walked across a portion of the same linoleum-covered floor for about 12 feet. At that point she stepped upon the wax, slipped and fell to her injury. Upon being removed to another room she found pink dental wax on the sole of her right shoe under the ball of the foot. It was proved at the trial that wax of the same quality as that