Alamo Nat. Bank of San Antonio v. Hazlitt

HIGGINS, Justice.

The Alamo National Bank maintains, in the basement of the banking building owned by it, a safety box department. A stairway six feet wide leads to the floor of the basement. The steps were of Trav-entine, a quarried stone imported from Italy, and being a species of marble. Mrs. Mathilde L. Hazlitt rented one of the boxes. On February 10, 1933, she undertook to descend the stairway for the purpose of using her box. In so doing she slipped upon the stairway and fell, inflicting personal injuries. She and her husband brought this suit against the bank to recover damages.

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