East Tennessee Light & Power Co. v. Gose

Plaintiff below, G. C. Gose, sustained personal injuries when he fell through an open trap door in the grocery store of Kelly Godsey in Bristol, Tennessee, on July 12, 1937.

The declaration, containing a single count, charges that the defendants Kelly Godsey and East Tennessee Light and Power Company negligently left said trap door open and that plaintiff, who had entered the store for the purpose of selling vegetables, as he had often theretofore done, having no knowledge of the opening or pitfall thus negligently created, stepped or fell into the opening and was precipitated with great force…