Vallette v. Maison Blanche Co.

Defendant, Maison Blanche Company, operates a large department store in New Orleans, and for the purpose of carrying customers from the first floor to the second, and from the second to the third, operates, in addition to numerous elevators, a mechanical device, known as an escalator, which is a moving stairway, the motive power of which is an electric motor.

Mrs. Earl A. Vallette, on the afternoon of December 8th, 1944, entered the store with her daughter, now Mrs. Morris O'Hern, and a three year old nephew. Mrs. Vallette decided that it would give a thrill to her little nephew to ride on the…