St. Clergy v. Northcutt

STEPHENSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment. The parties will be referred to here as they were in the trial court.

Plaintiff, Myrtle E. St. Clergy, brought this action for damages against her son-in-law, defendant, Charles F. Northcutt. Her cause of action is for personal injuries she received when she slipped and fell on a throw rug in defendant’s home.

Plaintiff alleged: That her injuries were received while she was spending the night as a guest in defendant’s home. That because of polio in her childhood, plaintiff was partially…