Jones v. Keetch

This case involves what is claimed to have been a defective chair. The chair was owned *167and provided for their patrons by the defendant motel operators. With several fellow-workers plaintiff Carroll E. Jones was staying at the motel. At end of the workday four of the crew started to play pinochle in one of the rented rooms. They sat around "something like a tea table”. After some 20 to 30 minutes of playing the rear legs of Mr. Jones’ chair collapsed, causing him to fall on his fundament and suffer a ruptured disc. The injury necessitated a spinal fusion.

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, sued the…