Mary W. Crocker v. WTAR Radio Corp.

Holding

Mary W. Crocker, hereinafter called the plaintiff, filed an action at law against WTAR Radio Corporation, hereinafter called the defendant, to recover damages for injuries sustained in a fall on the latter’s premises. At the close of the plaintiff’s case the lower court sustained a motion to strike the evidence, on the ground that it showed that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law. A verdict and judgment for the defendant necessarily followed, and we granted the plaintiff a writ of error to determine whether the evidence was sufficient to go to the jury on the issue of the defendant’s negligence and the plaintiff’s contributory negligence.