Devens v. Goldberg

Plaintiff brought this action for personal injuries sustained in the scope of her duties while employed *176by defendant in Ms home as a part-time cleaning woman. There were no eyewitnesses to the accident, and plaintiff, suffering from retrograde amnesia, was unable to remember anything about its actual occurrence. She recalled that she went into the bathroom of defendant’s home to get a rug, which she intended to shake over the wooden guard railing on the back porch of the house, but remembered notMng further until she regained consciousness in a hospital. She was found injured and unconscious…