Wesbrock v. Colby, Inc.

The plaintiff, Bose Wesbrock, brought a suit to recover for personal injuries sustained by her when she fell down the basement stairs of Colby’s Inc., store building, as she attempted to use the telephone located in a stairway of the store. In her petition, filed in court, she charged she was an invitee in said store; that the vestibule where the" telephone was placed, was not lighted; that the stairway was open and unguarded, and that the defendant failed to give any warning to the plaintiff of the danger of the surrounding condition. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, the defendant…