Watson v. McSoud

BRIGHTMIRE, Presiding Judge.

Nature called plaintiff’s live-in collie dog at the fourth hour past midnight. Sleepily its mistress slipped out of bed, opened the door, and peered into the darkness of a dry autumn morning. The dog ran ahead and down seven steps to a landing where it stood wagging its tail looking up at plaintiff as she stepped out onto the small stoop in front of her second floor flat. There in the predawn stillness plaintiff could make out the general location of the steps covered with pieces of carpet remnants á neighbor had placed on them several days before. She could not,…