Gentry v. Taylor

delivered tlie opinion of the Court.

These are actions for damages for a personal injury in which plaintiffs recovered judgments in the trial Court against Ida D. Taylor, as Trustee, owner of the premises, and J. R. Blake, lessee. The trial judge sustained a motion for a new trial as to Ida Taylor, the lessor, and directed a verdict in her favor, from which action plaintiffs appealed. The Court of Appeals reversed and this Court granted certiorari.

In June, 1942,. Robbie Gentry, a colored' girl, was seriously injured when the seat of a stool on which she was sitting at a refreshment counter in…