Daugherty v. Montgomery Ward

STEVENS, Judge.

This appeal relates to the liability of a business to its business invitee for personal injuries sustained by the invitee in an attempt to be seated upon a chair equipped with.casters.

Nan Daugherty, herein referred to as the plaintiff, is a housewife. The defendant, Montgomery Ward, issued a sales contract. Thereafter problems arose in relation to that contract,, and the plaintiff was invited to the defendant’s business office to discuss the matter. On 4 October 1961, she went to the .defendant’s office with an adult son, the youngest of her four children. The office was…