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  "name": "EARL FRANCIS v. CLEVELAND DRUG COMPANY",
  "name_abbreviation": "Francis v. Cleveland Drug Co.",
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      "EARL FRANCIS v. CLEVELAND DRUG COMPANY."
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        "text": "Per Curiam.\nPlaintiff went to defendant\u2019s drug store to get a prescription filled. \"While waiting, he saw someone, not an employee of defendant, go to a refrigerator in a small storage room adjoining the prescription room and get a Coca-Cola. He went to the refrigerator and got one for himself. After drinking the Coca-Cola he undertook to place the empty bottle on a shelf in the room near an open stairway leading to the basement. In so doing, he fell into the open stairway and suffered certain personal injuries. The room was not open for the accommodation of customers and plaintiff was not invited therein by defendant. Upon this state of facts the judgment must be affirmed on authority of Clark v. Drug Co., 204 N.C. 628, 169 S.E. 217, and Wilson v. Dowtin, 215 N.C. 547, 2 S.E. 2d 576.\nAffirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Horace Kennedy and C. 0. Horn for plaintiff appellant.",
      "D. Z. Newton for defendant appellee."
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    "head_matter": "EARL FRANCIS v. CLEVELAND DRUG COMPANY.\n(Filed 19 October, 1949.)\nNegligence \u00a7 4d\u2014\nPlaintiff customer fell into an open stairway while in a part of a store which was not open for the accommodation of customers. Held: Judgment of nonsuit was properly entered.\nAppeal by plaintiff from Patton, Special Judge, May Term, 1949, ClevelaND.\nAffirmed.\nCivil action to recover damages for personal injuries.\nAt tbe conclusion of the plaintiff's evidence in chief the court, on motion of defendant, entered judgment of nonsuit and plaintiff appealed.\nHorace Kennedy and C. 0. Horn for plaintiff appellant.\nD. Z. Newton for defendant appellee."
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