Burton-Lingo Co. v. Morton

FUNDERBURK, Justice.

This is a suit under the death statute (R.S.192S, Art. 4671), brought by Mrs. B. Morton and others (the surviving widow and children of E. H. Morton, deceased) against Burton-Lingo Company, Inc., to recover damages for the death of said E. H. Morton. It was alleged that plaintiff Mrs. Morton and her husband had an apartment in a building owned by the defendant, and that in order to reach the apartment it was necessary to go up a stairway on the outside of the building onto a porch (hereinafter called interchangeably porch or platform) and then through a door. That the…