Cone v. Lawhon

Mrs. W. T, Lawhon filed suit for damages against Charles H. Cone alleging that the defendant rented a cer tain house to her husband; that on July 31, 1938, while living in the house with her husband the plaintiff “walked out onto the front porch, when -suddenly her left foot fell through a board or plank up to her knee in the flooring of the porch,” producing the injuries sued for; that the plaintiff “and her husband, on several occasions at the time that the rent was collected at their residence by either the” defendant, W. H. Cone, or a Mr. Davis, notified them that the house was in a bad…