Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, Inc. v. Scoville

This was an action for damages brought by the appellee who allegedly suffered personal injuries which resulted from his slipping and falling upon the stairway of the appellant’s place of business in Bloomington, Indiana. The appellee had gone to the appellant’s bulk plant to pay his fuel bill, which he customarily did every other Saturday. It was a foggy, misty day, and the appellee, after parking his car in the appellant’s parking lot, went to the office of Glenn Morris, who was the manager of the appellant’s plant. To get to such office the appellee had to go up some steps which were made…