Focht v. Johnson

The plaintiffs, husband and wife, who will be respectively referred to herein as Mr. Focht and Mrs. Focht, were employed as ranch hand and cook on a ranch, near Springdale, owned by the defendants. Mrs. Focht was injured when she fell down a basement stairway in the house which they occupied on the ranch. This suit was brought on the theory that the defendants were negligent in failing to provide a safe place to work. The defendants alleged in. their answer that Mrs. Focht had assumed the risks incident to use of the stairway and that her injuries were due to her own negligence. The jury…