Bailey v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

This appeal arises from an action to recover for injuries sustained by the plaintiff when she fell into an open ditch adjacent to a sidewalk in the rear of an apartment house.

Isabella Bailey, the plaintiff, a widow seventy-seven years of age, resided at the Magnuson Court Apartments in Renton. On March 22, 1957, she fell in her apartment and fractured her right femur. By June 13, 1957, she had recovered sufficiently to take short walks with the use of her cane. It was while taking one of these walks, on August 15, 1957, that the accident occurred. Prior thereto, a new Safeway Store was being…