Firestone Service Stores Inc. v. Gillen

Under the allegations of this petition, the plaintiff was an invitee. The effect of the plaintiff’s contention was not, if the stairway had been properly constructed, that the placing of the stairway in such a semidark place was the sole proximate cause of the injury. The plaintiff predicated her suit upon the defective construction and maintenance of the stairs and landings. Although the plaintiff might have known that when the door was closed the stairway would be surrounded by semidarkness, yet she might have been unaware of the particular defects in the construction of the stairway…