Court Opinion

ID: 9576837
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:29:06.84253+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:18:07.282676
License: Public Domain

Judge BECTON
dissenting.
In my view, the record does not contain even a scintilla of evidence supporting a finding that plaintiff was contributorily negligent by her failure to look out the bathroom window. To suggest that a sixty-two-year-old woman must go to a bathroom, stand on a bathtub, crank open a window and stick her head out to see who was knocking to overcome a contributory negligence defense is anomalous in view of the jury’s conclusion that plaintiffs act of opening the door and her failure to call the desk clerk was not contributory negligence. I vote to affirm.