Welbourn v. Negley

WILLIAMS, Justice.

This appeal presents the sole question of the propriety of the action of the trial court in granting a summary judgment against the plaintiff in a “slip and fall” case. Mrs. Welbourn was a tenant in an apartment house owned by Mrs. Negley. The apartment house was located on a sloping terrain and there was a brick walkway which was used by the owner and tenants to go from the house to the garden and to the garages. Mrs. Welbourn, while watering flowers which she kept in the garden, slipped on a loose brick in the steps of the walkway and fell, sustaining personal injuries for…