Noyes v. Fisher

A writ of error was taken to a judgment in favor of the defendants in an action for damages for the alleged negligence of the defendants in allowing an unsafe condition to exist in a structure constituting an alcove at the entrance to the hotel operated by them in the City of St. Petersburg, Florida. The alcove or recess opened off the street at the entrance to the hotel. The plaintiff, Noyes, was a pedestrian using the sidewalk of the street in front of the hotel, and observing a friend, who was occupying a seat in the alcove, stopped and sat down on the seat in the alcove to converse with…