DeHaven v. Hoskins

BECTON, Judge.

The plaintiffs appeal from an order granting summary judgment to one of the two defendants in this personal injury action. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

I

On the evening of 24 July 1986, the plaintiffs, Dorothy and James DeHaven, went to visit their next-door neighbors, defendants Betty and James Hoskins, to show them their new car. Betty Hoskins had begun to prepare dinner before they drove up, and was heating a pan of vegetable oil on the stove to make french fries when Dorothy DeHaven came to the door and asked her to come outside. Betty Hoskins went out, leaving the…