Pease v. Nichols

BIRD, Judge.

Howard Pease and Auravadis Pease, appellants, operated an apartment house in the City of Louisville. Louise Nichols, appellee, was a tenant in a second floor apartment. At about 7:45 a. m., as she started to work on a dark rainy day, she descended a short flight of steps to a landing at which point it became necessary for her to turn left and continue her descent to the first floor. As she started to make the left turn, she stepped on a rug which she described as a light, cotton throw rug. She complains that the rug slipped with her and caused her to fall down the remaining steps…