Larson v. Papst

Plaintiff appeals from an involuntary nonsuit in a personal injury case. She was employed by defendant as a laundress in defendant’s home and fell down the stairway while carrying soiled clothes. Plaintiff alleges that defendant was negligent in failing to provide a laundry bag in which to collect soiled clothes, in failing to provide a handrail along either side of the stairway and in failing to provide plaintiff a safe place in which to work. Defendant denied negligence and alleged the defenses of contributory negligence and assumption of risk.

Plaintiff was employed by defendant to come to…