Robinson v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

Tbis appeal is from a judgment on a verdict for $5,000 to compensate plaintiff for injuries she received in a fall while on defendant’s premises as a business invitee. The complaint charged that plaintiff fell when something caught or gripped her heel as she started to descend stairs, and that the cause was the maintenance by defendant of an unsafe and dangerous rubber mat on the floor.

The evidence discloses that entrance to the defendant’s office is gained by walking up two or three steps from the sidewalk to a set of double doors leading into an areaway which leads to another set of double…