Wolfson v. Chelist

VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

In this action, plaintiff Belle Wolfson had verdict and judgment for $2,000 for injury sustained as the result of a fall on the porch steps of the residence owned and occupied by her sister, Bernice Chelist, now deceased. When plaintiff was injured, she was a social guest at the Chelist home. There was evidence that plaintiff, in walking out through a rear or side door of the house, had stepped and slipped on fragments of meat or grease which remained on the concrete porch floor after the cat had been fed there the night before.

The action was originally brought against…