Overton Square, Inc. v. Bone

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

Petitioners are the owners and operators of a restaurant in Memphis. Respondent was a patron of the restaurant on January 28, 1975 and sustained injuries when she fell from the back entry of the restaurant, down a flight of six steps onto a paved parking lot.

The steps were constructed of brick with iron handrailings along each side and were one hundred nineteen and one-half inches wide. Provisions of the city building code required stairways exceeding eighty-eight inches in width to have an intermediate handrail, and petitioners’ steps were not so equipped. The…