Watts v. Mantooth

HOBSON, Judge.

The appellants appeal a final judgment entered in favor of the appellees pursuant to a jury verdict.

This is a bathtub “slip and fall” case involving injuries sustained by plaintiff-ap-pellee Mrs. Ethel Mantooth, a house guest of the defendant-appellants Charles and Pauline Watts, while visiting in their home on February 22, 1961. The parties will hereinafter be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

The facts leading up to the injury are not in dispute. Plaintiff, Mrs. Ethel Man-tooth, while bathing in defendants’ bathroom, fell and sustained injuries when a bathmat on…