Ferguson v. Sturch

Citations

• 61 Pa. Super. 516
• 1915 Pa. Super. LEXIS 363

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Boarding house Iceeper — Evidence.</p> <p>In an action against a boarding house keeper to recover damages for personal injuries where the plaintiff avers in her statement of claim that her foot caught in a hole in a carpet on a stairway in a totally dark hallway, a verdict in her favor cannot be sustained, where the evidence shows that the hallway had been properly lighted, but that the lights had been put out by some one other than the defendant or any one in his employ, and no witness testified that plaintiff fell by reason of her foot catching in a hole, and the plaintiff herself testified that “there wasn’t any hole.”</p>