Talley v. Curtis

This is an appeal in error by W. H. Talley, plaintiff below, from a judgment of the Second Circuit Court of Davidson County dismissing his suit at his cost.

Plaintiff sued bis landlord; W. B. Curtis, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff in a fall while descending a flight of outside wooden steps to a dwelling-house in which plaintiff and his family lived. It is averred in plaintiff’s declaration that “when the plaintiff was in the act of leaving his residence to go to work on the early morning of October 19, 1937, and stepped upon said steps the same broke and gave…