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- Title: Pelon v. Becco Et Al.
- Author : Supreme Court of Wisconsin
- Release Date : January 12, 1948
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
Description
The plaintiff commenced an action for damages for personal injuries sustained in a fall on the floor of defendants' restaurant. Defendants answered denying negligence in the maintenance of their premises, and examined the plaintiff before a court commissioner before trial. Upon affidavits prepared by one of the attorneys for the defendants, A. W. Parnell, and the affidavits of the defendants, the defendants moved for summary judgment of dismissal of plaintiff's complaint. The trial court entered an order denying the motion of the defendants, from which this appeal is taken. The affidavit of A. W. Parnell incorporates questions and answers from the deposition of the plaintiff. These questions and answers disclose that the plaintiff, a young lady, had occasionally worked in the restaurant helping her mother; that on this particular day she stepped from the kitchen to the dining room, slipped and fell on the linoleum floor. She had walked over a piece of cardboard which lay on the floor at the kitchen door, but conceded that this had been safely passed and that she slipped on bare linoleum. After testifying that she saw no accumulation of wax, no oil or water or other foreign substance on the floor, she was asked: