Wheeler Terrace, Inc. v. Lynott

MYERS, Associate Judge:

A jury awarded damages to the seven year old appellee and her parents for personal injuries sustained when the child fell over the stump of a bush protruding from the grounds of an apartment house project. At the time of the accident the child’s family lived in the project owned and maintained by the corporate appellant.

At trial appellant’s liability was established by evidence tending to show that; the unpaved area where the child fell was commonly used as a walkway by the tenants and was part of a direct route from appel-lees’ apartment to the nearest playground; the…