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- Title: William B. Wesson v. Dorothy Gillespie
- Author : The Supreme Court of Texas
- Release Date : January 07, 1964
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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This is a slip and fall case. The plaintiff, Mrs. Dorothy Gillespie, tripped over a threshold at night going out of the dimly lighted 8-Ball Lounge in Wichita Falls. She was a regular customer and had been in and out of its door and over the threshold at least 500 times. Trial was to a jury which found that the defendant negligently maintained the threshold and that this was a proximate cause of plaintiffs injury; that defendant did not fail to properly light the threshold; that defendant failed to provide a handrail, but that this was not a proximate cause; and that plaintiff did not fail to keep a proper lookout. The trial court disregarded the jurys answers to those issues which (1) found that defendant negligently maintained the threshold and that this was a proximate cause, and (2) which found that plaintiff kept a proper lookout. That court found that there was no evidence to support the jurys answers to these issues. Judgment was entered for the defendant. The Court of Civil Appeals at Fort Worth reversed. It rendered judgment for the plaintiff for the $2,900 which were found by the jury to have been the damages suffered by the plaintiff. 370 S.W.2d 918.