Straley v. Keltner

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment of the Common Pleas Court of Montgomery County entered on a directed verdict in favor of the defendants.

The only error assigned is that the trial court erred in sustaining defendants’ motion for a directed verdict at the close of plaintiff’s case.

Plaintiff, a tenant in a trailer park, sued the owners and operators of the trailer park to recover damages for personal injuries which she sustained when she allegedly fell on a cement platform which was covered with ice.

The facts may be summarized as follows :

On January 27, 1955, plaintiff, who…