Starks Realty Co. v. French

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

For about two years prior to March 10, 1932, the appellee, Mrs. Hallie French, was a janitress for the appellant, Starks Realty Company, and was on the date mentioned working at night; her shift ending at midnight. A short while before her duties terminated for that night, she undertook, with the use of a pole, to raise the top sash of a window in one of the rooms of the building in which she worked. "While pushing upon it, the pole slipped and caused her to fall against either a radiator or some furniture in the room,…