Carr v. Brooks

McDowell, judge.

Mary Elizabeth Carr and husband, Earl Carr, filed separate actions for damages against defendants for injuries sustained by Mrs. Carr in a fall at defendants’ home. The actions were consolidated for trial, tried by the court, and judgments rendered in favor of plaintiffs. Defendants appealed.

In their separate petitions plaintiffs allege that they were invitees of defendants at their home on August 2, 1958, and about 10:15 P.M., as Mrs. Carr was descending the steps at the rear of defendants’ home, which steps they aver were unlighted, she stepped on an old shoe laying at the…