Case Name: MYERS v. KAUFFMANN DEPARTMENT STORES, Inc.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1945-06-15
Citations: 149 F.2d 968
Docket Number: No. 8803
Parties: MYERS v. KAUFFMANN DEPARTMENT STORES, Inc.
Judges: Before MARTIN and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges, and KALODNER, District Judge.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 149
Pages: 968–969

Head Matter:
MYERS v. KAUFFMANN DEPARTMENT STORES, Inc.
No. 8803.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Argued June 7, IMS.
Decided June 15, 1945.
Sanford M. Chilcote, of Pittsburgh, Pa. (Dickie, Robinson & McCamey, of Pittsburgh, Pa., on the brief), for appellant.
John H. Sorg, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellee.
Before MARTIN and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges, and KALODNER, District Judge.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In this personal injury action, plaintiff-appellant fell while walking down an escalator in defendant's store. The escalator, at the time, was moving in a downward direction. Plaintiff, wearing high-heeled shoes, made no observation, prior to the accident, of the step on which she claims to have fallen; she made no attempt to use the readily available hand rails; she, herself, testified that had she remained stationary on the escalator, even without holding the rails, nothing would have happened. Her contributory negligence is clear as a matter of law.
The judgment of the District Court is affirmed