Wilson v. Pickels

We must focus here on the proximate cause of the injury and the evidence of it. For one thing, the evidence is conclusive that debris and water on the floor were not the cause. Nor was there any evidence that any other door had a defective hinge pin.

When Pickels entered one of the rest room stalls and as she pulled the stall door closed, the door separated from its upper hinge and its lower outside corner fell.

The suit alleged negligence “in hanging a heavy stall door up oif of the floor in a manner insufficient to prevent it from falling upon invitees; in failing to maintain the rest room…