Wardlaw v. Executive Committee of the Baptist Convention

The plaintiff sued the defendant corporation, as owner and operator of a hospital, for physical injuries from a fall when entering a room in its building. The petition shows that the plaintiff entered the room upon the express invitation of the defendant’s agent in charge of its “information bureau,” to give information for the treatment of a patient whom the plaintiff had just accompanied to the hospital. It further alleges that “the cause of her falling was that there was a step of approximately five inches downward, from the level of the hallway in which she had been standing, to the floor…