Curtis v. Kastner

In this action the trial court, sitting without a jury, found that the injury for which plaintiff sought to recover damages was proximately caused by her negligence and failure to exercise ordinary care for her own safety. Plaintiff struck her head with great violence against a projecting rafter of defendant’s garage, which rafter she failed to observe, and thereby sustained injuries to her neck and spine, including a chip fracture of the fifth cervical vertebra.

Both plaintiff and defendant reside in the block bounded by Torrey Road, Prospect Street, Virginia Way and Exchange Street in La…