Vernatte v. First National Bank of Tampa

ALLEN, Chief Judge.

Appellant, plaintiff below, appeals an adverse final judgment entered upon an order granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment.

Plaintiff sued defendant as a result of injuries sustained in an accident, which occurred in defendant’s lobby on August 4, 1964.

*358Plaintiff alleges that he had gone to the bank to make a mortgage payment and, while in route to the area of the bank where such payments are made, came upon carpeted stairs. As he began to descend these stairs, the carpet on one of the stairs “slipped” under his left foot, causing him to fall to the lower level of…