United Fidelity Life Ins. Co. v. Holliday

STOKES, Justice.

This action was instituted by the -appel-lee against appellant for damages which' she alleged she suffered in a fall occasioned by her foot being entangled with a telephone cable. She was employed by appellant as stenographer and secretary in its office in Dallas. Appellant installed and maintained in its office a booth in which one of the telephones was located and which appellee had occasion to use in the line of her duties on October 14, 1946. After completing the telephone conversation with a customer of appellant, appellee started to emerge from the booth and was tripped…