Henry v. American Airlines, Inc.

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

Charles E. Henry and wife sued American Airlines, Inc., for damages alleged to have been suffered when Mrs. Henry’s crutch slipped on an “oil slick” at the Nashville airport while the Henrys were about to board appellee’s plane there en route from El Paso to Knoxville. Plaintiffs alleged that Mrs. Henry was crippled, having a fused right hip; that she was using crutches going toward defendant’s plane, while other passengers surged about her, and, as she reached the stairs leading up to the plane, her left crutch slipped on an “oil slick”, a dangerous and hazardous…