Mary W. Crocker v. WTAR Radio Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where two levels of a stage matched in color, the plaintiff was not necessarily contributorily negligent for tripping because while the situation was “open” it may not have been “obvious”
• noting that “while the situation was ‘open’ to the plaintiff, in the sense that there was no obstruction between her and the step [on the stage], it was not necessarily ‘obvious’ to her” that there was a step down
• plaintiff did not discern a wooden step which had been polished and was illuminated by bright lights
• plaintiff’s contributory negligence held to be a jury question where an illusion of a single floor level was created by bright overhead lights shining on two highly polished surfaces positioned at different levels

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