Mills v. AB Dick Company

Sidney Mills slipped and fell on a staircase on premises leased by A. B. Dick Company of Detroit, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of A. B. Dick Company, from Continental Assurance Company. He and his wife, Sylvia, commenced this action against the companies named to recover compensation for their damages. At the conclusion of their proofs, 1 the judge directed a verdict for the defendant companies on the grounds that the Mills had neither shown any negligence on the part of the defendants nor that there was a causal relationship between the claimed defect — absence of handrails on the…