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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Regina JOSKOWITZ, joined by her husband, Sam Joskowitz, Appellants, v. Ruth HOLTMAN, a single woman, d/b/a Excello Villa Apts., Appellee.
    No. 61-136.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.
    Nov. 9, 1961.
    Gertler & Frank, Miami Beach, for appellants.
    Lane, Primm, Lane & Carrier, Miami, for appellee.
    Before PEARSON, TILLMAN, C. J., and CARROLL and BARKDULL, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from a summary final judgment for the defendant in an action brought by a tenant against her landlord for an injury sustained when the tenant tripped and fell. It appeared without issue that the plaintiff-wife proceeded in her stocking feet into a dark hallway in order to turn on the hallway light for a neighbor, and that she tripped over a carpet runner which overlapped another. The defect had existed during all of the one and one-half years that plaintiff had lived in the apartment building. Upon these undisputed facts the trial judge found that the plaintiff-wife was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law. E. g., Brant v. Van Zandt, Fla.1955, 77 So.2d 858; Norman v. Shulman, 150 Fla. 142, 7 So.2d 98.

Affirmed.