McArtor v. Pete's Cafe

MASON, Justice.

March 10, 1969, Alta and Howard McArtor filed this law action to recover damages for injuries sustained by Mrs. McArtor from a fall alleged to have been proximately caused by defendants’ negligence in spilling hot coffee on her while a customer in Pete’s Cafe in Des Moines March 13, 1967. In one division she claims damages for possible scars and disfigurement, loss of earnings and pain suffered as a result of her injuries. In a separate division as a basis for further recovery her husband asserts that as a proximate consequence of defendants’ negligence he sustained loss of his…