Case ID: ohio-law-abs_1/html/0044-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "VICKERY, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 59
    FRANK LEGAN V. AM. AGRL. CHEMICAL CO.
    Cuyahoga Court of Appeals.
    No. 4058,
    decided Dec. 11, 1922
    NEGLIGENCE — Unlighted stairway, injury in falling down.
    Error to Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas
    Attorneys — M. W. Dissette and Green & Gallup for Legan; Tolies, Hogsett, Ginn & Morley for the Company.
   VICKERY, P. J.

Epitomized Opinion

Where a company conducts a boarding House to serve its men while working in their nearby factory, and a boarder was injured by falling down a stairway in the house, a petition charging negligence on part of the company in not having the stairway and hallway lighted, and that this stairway, down which he fell, being so close to the toilet room and no light to guide him in any way being alleged as the proximate cause of the injury, and the petition not showing that the plaintiff was guilty of any negligence himself which contributed to his injury, states- a cause of action, reversing common pleas.