Johnson v. Gulf Refining Co.

MILLIKEN, Chief Justice.

Appellant Mary Florience Johnson, filed this action in the Jefferson Circuit Court against Lorin John Rudolph and the Gulf Refining Company, lessee and owner, respectively, of a gasoline filling station located at the southeast corner of Eighteenth and Oak Streets in Louisville, Kentucky. Her claim is for injuries suffered in a fall in the filling station driveway. She has appealed from a judgment entered on a jury verdict after the court had peremptorily instructed the jury to find for the defendants, appellees on this appeal.

At the trial appellant testified that on…