Bonner v. Mercantile Nat. Bank of Dallas

HALE, Justice.

Appellant sued appellee for damages on account of personal injuries sustained by her when she fell while descending a stairway leading from the banking floor level to the lobby floor of appellee’s building. She had ascended from the lobby to the banking floor by means of an escalator for the purpose of cashing a check. -By the time she had cashed her check the regular hours for the transaction of business with the bank had ended, the escalator had been stopped and by reason thereof appellant chose the stairway in question as a means of descent. In her trial petition she alleged…