Emmons v. Charlton & Co.

Citations

• 63 Wash. 276
• 115 P. 163
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 1191

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Dangekous Peemises — Contbibutoby Negligence— Evidence — Subeiciency. The evidence is sufficient to show negligence in the maintenance of a stairway in a store, and does not show contributory negligence, where it appears that the stairway was not lighted and was obscured by tables and wares and was not visible to one approaching it until arrival upon it, that the aisle going by it at right angles was crowded with shoppers, and a customer, jostled by the crowd and going straight ahead past the stairway without being able to see it, fell down the stairs when she stepped aside in meeting a person going in the opposite direction.</p>