Watson v. Citizens & Southern Bank

Carlisle, Judge.

The plaintiff in this case alleged that he stepped on a glass bottle which had been left on a stairway on the defendant’s premises, and was by that occurrence propelled down the stairway sustaining injuries for which he sued. By amendment he alleged that the bottle on which he stepped had been on the stairway for three or four days prior to the time he stepped on it and that the neglect of the defendant to remove said bottle for that length of time amounted to the failure to exercise ordinary care and diligence. Subsequently, the plaintiff amended his petition, and without…