Norton v. Lumbra

The plaintiff seeks recovery in this action of negligence for injury sustained in a fall from a stepladder. At the time of her injury she was employed as a part time domestic in the defendants’ home. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence the court granted the defendants’ motion for a directed verdict and this appeal followed.

The plaintiff was an efficient worker and worked pretty much on her own initiative. The accident occurred on September 6, 1963. The plaintiff was washing windows at the time from outside the kitchen. She was standing on a folding stepladder. The ladder had two…