North American Co. v. Landahl

SHANNON, Judge.

The appellant, defendant below, has appealed from two final judgments which are based on jury verdicts for the appellees, husband and wife, and which award damages for injuries sustained by the wife in a fall on appellant’s premises.

At the time of the accident plaintiffs, together with another couple, were walking through the grounds of the defendant’s hotel at nighttime on their way to visit one of the hotel’s guests. Neither plaintiff had been on the grounds before. According to the record they were proceeding along a dimly lighted flagstone walk with the plaintiffs third and…