Carter v. Davis

C. C. McCULLOH, District Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal from a summary judgment in favor of defendants. The case is one where the plaintiff slipped and fell on snow in front of defendants’ motel office.

The defendants were the operators of La Loma Motel in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The plaintiff, Anita Carter, checked into the motel as a guest late in the afternoon of December 12, 1960, while driving alone from Colorado to El Paso, Texas. Snow had been falling in Las Vegas in the hours or days prior to plaintiff’s arrival and continued to fall on the morning of the accident. Defendant, Mary Davis, had…