Catherine T. Potterton and Eugene Potterton v. James Alan Porter and Patricia Porter

ROSENN, Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal calls upon us to decide a subtle question concerning the circumstances under which a social guest may recover from her host for personal injuries caused by a defect on the premises which was known to the defendants but not to the plaintiff. The district court granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, holding that even if the carpeting on which the plaintiff tripped was a concealed danger, there was no evidence that the defendants knew that the defect presented an unreasonable risk of danger to the plaintiffs. We vacate and remand. 1

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