A 73-year-old Catonsville woman has filed a $300,000 lawsuit against Woodward & Lothrop Inc., claiming a dress rack tripped her, causing her to fall and fracture a shoulder, knee and toe in the Columbia store.
In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Howard County Circuit Court, Alice Fruge, of the 200 block of Glen Rae Drive, alleges she was injured on April 15, 1992, in the store in the Columbia Mall on Little Patuxent Parkway.
As she walked through an aisle, she tripped on a protruding dress rack, the suit says.
The store "was careless, reckless and otherwise negligent by failing to position its clothes racks in such a way so as to ensure . . . reasonable safety," the suit says.