Crovo v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company

Shortly before midnight on October 4, 1973, a neighbor of Shirley Ann Skipper telephoned and asked Ms. Skipper to walk with her from the apartment complex, where the two women lived, to a restaurant and lounge a distance of some 200 yards. The neighbor, Martha Haas, said that they would only be gone a little while; that she was going to the lounge to get Charlie Crovo and would then return to the Haas apartment. Ms. Skipper protested that she had to be up at 5:00 a.m., had already retired and did not want to go. She relented, however, and got dressed and the two women left the apartment at…