McIntosh v. Greenway Apartments, Inc.

HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellant slipped and fell one morning as she was descending the stairway in the apartment house where she lived. She sued appellee corporation, her landlord, for negligently maintaining the safety of the common stairway. At the close of her case the trial court directed a verdict in favor of the landlord. Appellant claims that her evidence warranted submission of the issue of negligence to the jury.

Appellant’s evidence showed that after she fell, and was helped back to her apartment by her roommate,1 the latter returned to the hallway and found a dark brown banana peel…