Citizens Savings Bank v. Covington

The Citizens Savings Bank building is located at the southwest corner of Baltimore and Eutaw Streets in Baltimore. In the sidewalk on Eutaw Street there is a sheet-iron door, which affords access to the cellar under the building. It is flush with the surface of the sidewalk, and is raised by an iron handle in the shape of an inverted U which is designed so as to fall of its own weight into place. On June 8, 1935, about eleven o’clock at night, the plaintiff, Georgia C. Covington, when walking south on Eutaw Street, stepped on the cellar door, where she fell, sustaining injuries which disabled…