Payn v. West Jefferson General Hospital

SCHOTT, Judge.

Plaintiffs have appealed from a dismissal of their suit for damages on defendants’ motion for summary judgment. Plaintiffs alleged in their petition that Mrs. Payn was injured when she slipped on a sloped floor while she was exiting from the ladies lounge on the fourth floor of defendant hospital. The issue is whether plaintiffs’ suit was properly dismissed by summary judgment under the law considering the pleadings and affidavits on file.

Defendants, in support of their motion, filed affidavits of hospital representatives stating that the restroom in question adjoins the fourth…