Jennings v. Bolte

WESTERFIELD, Judge.

This is a suit by a domestic servant against her employer claiming $5,049.75 as damages for physical injuries alleged to have been sustained by reason of the collapse of a stepladder while in use by plaintiff in the home of the defendant. From a judgment dismissing plaintiff’s demand, this appeal was prosecuted.

The accident occurred on October 19, .1932, when the plaintiff, Cora Jennings, at-, tempted to ascend a stepladder for the purpose of cleaning a transom above- a door between a hallway and a room in the premises No. 2316 Jena street in this city. When plaintiff…