Hamblen v. Mohr

CODY, Justice.

This suit was brought by Charles W. Mohr against J. C. Penney Company (hereafter called Penney), a department store operator, and against H. C. House, the owner of the building in Houston which was rented by Penney. The suit was for damages to Mohr’s wife, suffered when she fell down one of the stairways which led from the ground floor to the basement of the building.

Plaintiff’s petition alleged in substance that the stairway in question was a winding one, the treads of which were built fan-wise, being narrower next to the banister, and wider at the opposite end, and that the…