Yarington v. Huck

The plaintiff, a married woman 65 years of age, in company with her husband and a niece, Esther Yarington, and a lady friend, Mrs. Young, both of Buffalo, on October 26, 1919, went to Westwood Inn, a public place, owned and operated by defendants, for a dinner, and it is her claim that after stepping over the threshold of the main door, she caught her *101foot in a hole in the matting or runner spread from the door sill to a cigar case, to prevent mud being carried into the dining room on rainy days. She fell and dislocated her shoulder and claims to have also hurt her hip in the fall. The…