Court Opinion

ID: 9571394
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:31:28.264005+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:30:24.193879
License: Public Domain

Hallows, J.
(dissenting). I think the owner of the premises did not maintain the hallway in as safe a condition as its nature permitted. She needed only to put a light bulb of greater than 25 or 40 watts in the hall light fixture. The nature of the premises did not prevent this. More light was especially needed in this rooming house where elderly people lived and particularly where one roomer was partly blind. Likewise, the record is clear that Richard Schramm did not use sufficient effort within the limitations of his disability to see the plaintiff whom he bumped into and injured.
I am authorized to state that Mr. Justice Fairchild and Mr. Justice Gordon join in this dissent.