Smith v. Trice

Parties herein will be referred to by name or by their trial court status.

Plaintiff had been serving as a domestic employee for several years prior to July 8, 1957, in the home of defendants. On that date, while working together with defendants and two relatives of Mrs. Trice, and under instructions of Mr. Trice, plaintiff injured her back while lifting one end of a piano.

*306Thereafter, plaintiff sued defendants alleging in her petition and amended petition negligence, substantially as hereafter set out:

1. That defendants knew, or should have known, that an attempt by plaintiff to lift the piano…