Montfort v. West Texas Hotel Co.

NEALON, Chief Justice.

Appellee West Texas Hotel Company is an innkeeper and operates the Hotel Cortez at El Paso, Texas. E. M. Montfort and wife were paying guests at Hotel Cortez on January IS, 1937, at which time Mrs. Montfort fell down a flight of stairs. Her fall was occasioned by her stepping upon a drinking glass that had been left upon one of the stairs; Plaintiff brought this action against appellee to recover damages on account of his wife’s injuries. The case was submitted to a jury, which found that her fall was occasioned by stepping upon the drinking glass, that the glass had…