Seale v. Harvey

STEPHENSON, Justice.

This is a suit for damages brought by Mary Lee Harvey, a minor through next friend, and her father, Day Lee Harvey, for personal injuries sustained by Mary Lee Harvey when she fell through a hole in the porch of a house rented to her father by the defendant, William Seale.

The jury found: the defendant guilty of negligence in failing to repair the porch; the father guilty of contributory negligence in failure to cover the hole; the daughter was not guilty of contributory negligence. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff Mary Lee Harvey in the sum of $1,000, and that…