Court Opinion

ID: 9768759
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 13:47:14.787256+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:44.369129
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DISSENTING OPINION
EDWARD P. HILL, Judge.
The stairway on which Mr. Franklin fell was well lighted. The steps were not steep; they were wide; and they were not slick.
*600Appellee says he does not know what caused him to fall. Certainly there was nothing about the stairway that caused his fall. Therefore, it must be assumed he was guilty of contributory negligence
True, there was a violation of a city ordinance requiring guardrails, but the failure to have guardrails was not the proximate cause or a contributing factor in the accident.
I would follow the rule announced in Brown Hotel v. Levitt, 306 Ky. 804, 209 S.W.2d 70, which was decided on January 23, 1948, and a later case than Greyhound Terminal of Louisville v. Thomas, 307 Ky. 44, 209 S.W.2d 478, decided November 18, 1947, and hold that appellee was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law.
MONTGOMERY, J., joins in this dissent.