Devoy v. Devoy

Plaintiff sued his parents for damages sustained in the early morning of January 27, 1961 from a slip and fall on the icy front porch of their home. Plaintiff’s father died during the pendency of the suit and trial was had against the mother alone. The court directed a verdict at the close of the plaintiff’s case. On this appeal from the judgment, plaintiff urges, first, that a prima facie case was made: that there was substantial evidence defendant breached a duty owed plaintiff to clear the porch of an unreasonably dangerous condition of ice and snow and that the breach was the proximate…