Webb v. Montgomery Ward & Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

Affirming.

The appellant, Charlotte Webb, was employed as a saleswoman in April, 1943, by the appellee Montgomery-Ward & Company, at Lexington, Kentucky. On May. 1, 1943, appellant stumbled over a dress rack and bruised her left leg. She went to her home before closing time on the day of the accident, but returned to work on the following day and continued to work until some time in July, when she left appellee’s employ voluntarily and accepted employment in Louisville, Kentucky. In October, 1943, she notified Mr. R. M. Barden, the appellee’s manager at…